04/14/25 OPPORTUNITIES AND OBLIGATIONS

04/14/25 OPPORTUNITIES AND OBLIGATIONS

When the ship leaves the pier, it is too late to get onboard, whether it is the rapture or death. It also includes many opportunities that God gives us in our personal journey. The words of Whittier can be quoted here:
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest of these:
'It might have been.'"

This can include opportunities concerning relationships, vocation, health, education, economics. Even some of the seemingly unimportant choices of life can have life changing ramifications.

Some wrong decisions can be corrected immediately, others can be corrected soon afterwards, others can be corrected much later in life, and some cannot be corrected at all.

Decisions have consequences, some of which are graver.

Don't allow your, "right," to choose, keep you from accepting your responsibility. A "non-choice" is a choice. Responsibilities lead to both obligations and opportunities. It is better for Christians to focus on them as opportunities. Remember, God says that Christians should count it all joy, even, when we encounter various kinds of trials. Our difficulties result in victory when we deal with them with Divine power, wisdom and enablement. Minor choices often impact major issues later in life. Finding and following God's will is essential to a life of purpose, productivity, power and purity. And the sooner we walk in the light and in the Spirit, the better it will be for us.

More somber and sobering still are the words of Jesus when referring to those who reject His salvation and Lordship over their lives,

Matthew 7:23
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

The sooner and the more consistently you choose obedience, the more likely you are to finish the course which God has assigned to you. Success is a lifetime accomplishment. We are more likely to finish our course if we are faithful in trusting and obeying as a daily reality in our lives.