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Man is absolutely unique in all of God’s creation
because God has given him the power of choice. The power of choice was given
to man that he might choose the path he would walk. (See Deuteronomy
30:15-20.)
Would he walk and talk with God as God had made him, or would he reject his
Maker and walk in his own way? Would he live in unity and love with Him, or
would he become selfish and deny the very existence of his Creator? This was
a risk of God’s faith. This was God believing in man. This was God’s faith in
a human being. God was saying, “I will risk your having the power of choice.”
Now that’s the greatest faith that has ever been known.
When people say to me, “I have trouble having faith in God,” I always reply,
“If you have difficulty having faith in God, think of the difficulty God has
in having faith in you and me!”
God takes the greatest risk of all when he gives us the power of choice, for
then we can act toward Him as we will.
(1) We can be reverent or irreverent toward our Maker.
(2) We can uphold the living God or reject His image in our spirit.
(3) We can be respectful toward one another or disrespectful.
(4) We can pollute His creation or protect it.
God risked everything in order to give man the power of choice. We use it
every moment of our existence. What a wonderful thing it is to know that God
not only loves us, but He believes in us! He tells us to choose you this day whom ye will serve. Let us respond as Joshua of old did:
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord (Joshua 24:15).
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