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Choices – continued…

{ February 4, 2010 @ 10:00 } · { bible, choices, deception, discipline, fallen angels, freewill, God, hell, Life, satan }
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With this post I plan to delve a little deeper into this aspect called “Choice” and leave it to you readers to decide and see if this makes sense to you or not and whether it may be applicable to your life.

Statutory Warning: What I am going to write may be disturbing to some readers, reader discretion is recommended. And I don’t intend to make fun or mock anybody, but am just trying to present another point of view and your views on this regard are well respected by me. 🙂

In my previous post I was talking about the importance of choices and their impact on you and your near and dear ones. Now let us see what exactly these impacts could be. Some people say I was “born” like this, meaning if there is something that is particular to them (sexual orientation, body defects etc.), they say the statement I just mentioned. Now how true do you think it could be, could I be the way I am cause I was born like that or could it be so because of the choices made by me or the people in and around me? Can you blame God for the way you are, as most of like to do?

So I wonder how people very easily tell that they were born like this and hence can’t do anything about it. The bible states that “God made Man in His Image”. What does this mean? It means that we are created to be perfect, disciplined beings following the order that our creator has designed for us.

I would like to emphasize my view with an analogy. Here I relate our Creator to that of a software programmer. One day he creates a program which is perfect and runs without any error on the platform that it is created for, he creates a guide and lists all the dos and don’ts for that program’s perfect functioning.  Sometime later another individual, ignoring the guidelines runs this program on an un-compatible platform. What do u think will happen…? Obviously, the program may end up throwing errors. Can we blame the software programmer for this? Of course not, he created the program with specifications and guidelines and if we are trying to run that program ignoring those specifications, then we are to be blamed only.

Similarly for us humans, God did create us perfect with some set guidelines so as to sustain our perfection. But through the course of history, man has lost his perfection, his charm, his beauty…wonder why? I leave it to you to wonder why. 🙂

Imagine if we humans had not turned from the set  guidelines and would have followed them to their last bit, we probably would have been in a place that we could call paradise; men living for many years, no wars, no hate, no discrimination – only peace, prosperity and love.

So, why do you think we have come to this current state, of course, it is because of the choices we and people near and dear to us have made and are making.So,who is making us take these wrong choices and fall time after time, any guesses…? The obvious answer is SATAN, that deceiver who made man fall for the first time (ADAM & EVE) and continues to do so to this very day. And why would he want to do so? I believe he does this so as to take us along with him to the place God prepared for Him and his band of Fallen Angels, HELL.

Today we are made to feel that everything we do is fine because it gives us satisfaction at the end of it. We neglect to see what God’s view on this is and we are mostly unaware of his guidelines that would enable us to live a more perfect life. Not everything that is satisfying to me is acceptable in the eyes of God. I might derive great pleasure and satisfaction in sleeping around with women, now this might be acceptable to many liberal thinking minds in our world but not at all to God, not because he is not happy with me feeling satisfied but because He is a God who looks at things from the bigger picture, meaning He keeps everyone’s feelings in mind before deciding what to do. So what may seem ok to me, because from my point of view everyone is happy, might not actually be the way it is and actually I might be causing hurt and harm to many. God can clearly see this and so asks us to abstain from such things and we think that God doesn’t care about our sentiments and feelings.

So we can see that making the right choices can help our world to become a better place, but then how do we know we are making the right choice. The answer is clear and simple – follow God’s word and when in doubt “Consult with God” and pray that he helps you in your decision making.

This topic is very vast and I can go on writing on it…but this is it for now…will take this up in my later posts…till then ciao! 🙂

choices

{ January 6, 2010 @ 21:43 } · { adam and eve, bible, choices, cross, deception, forbidden fruit, freewill, Jesus Christ, knight in shining armour, lies, Life, satan, truth }
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making-a-choice

Choices, this is something we come across and have to make more often than not in our lives. We choose our career, life partner, investments, things we do, etc. Sometimes we choose correctly and sometimes not. We express emotions over the choices we make, either we laugh or we cry and so on. But why do we have to choose? Why can’t the right things just happen? Why do we have to sometimes end up making the wrong choices?

The answer is “Freewill”, because God has created us in his image and hence we have been given the option (freewill) to choose what we have to or want to do. It is freewill that lead Adam to “disobey” God and eat the forbidden fruit and as a result of that we, his descendants, have to bear the burden of making the “CHOICES” that help us proceed with our lives on this earth. The bible tells us that Adam chooses to “disobey” God’s command, but did he do this deliberately or was he coerced into committing the act.

If we read the bible it clearly states that Satan (in disguise) first convinces Eve (Adam’s wife) to eat the fruit who in turn convinces Adam to take a bite of the fruit. So what do we see here, we see that man doesn’t naturally choose to disobey God, we do so under the influence of Satan lies that makes us feel that what we are doing is best for “US”. Yes this is what Satan uses in most cases; he lures man into believing that the act that he/ she is going to do best suits Him/ Her, the man.

And we in our everlasting quest to satisfy our desires and wants heed to this lie of Satan and end up sinning and falling short of God’s love. But something we don’t realize in this bargain is that we are directly or indirectly influencing or impacting the lives of the people around us – our family, relatives, friends etc. We really can’t judge whether our choices leave a positive or negative impact in these people’s lives, only God and time will tell.

So what do we do? Is there no way through which we can be certain of making positive choices? Well the answer is- there is a Way and the Way is Jesus Christ. Meaning that is when we look at Jesus’ life we see that he never made a selfish choice ever, he dint do anything for his benefit, whatever he said and did was for the Glory of God and to benefit “WE” his children\ followers\ etc. He came into this world, lived, died and rose from the dead to show us an example as to what heavenly and Godly living is all about, why? Because we are created for that kind of a life not the one we are currently living. He had many chances where he could have made a selfish choice (when Satan tempted him in the desert) and escape from what he had to go through (when he felt like giving up dying on the Cross and ask God to take his misery away), but he dint He rather chose to follow God’s will and be crucified so that WE may live with God and Him forever.

And just by doing something on those lines, not necessarily dying on the Cross, but thinking about everyone not just yourself when you make a choice can result in a choice with a positive impact. So take out the selfishness from you and learn to be a more compassionate decision maker, Choice maker 🙂