My commute to the office each morning takes me past several churches. One of the churches along my regular route has a marquis with changeable letters. Often this church uses this sign to make announcements of upcoming events. But occasionally it is used for a thought provoking statement.
Yesterday I noticed one of those statements and it has circled back in my mind a couple of times since. The statement read:
Life is full of choices, eternity only has two.
There is truth in this statement. We are bombarded with options every day – pulled in multiple directions to make decisions regarding everything from what shoes to wear to what car to drive to what music to enjoy. The truth is, it would be easy to make thousands of decisions in a day without once considering truly important issues.
Is it possible that the enemy uses all the options freedom affords to distract us from considering the most crucial choice of our lives? Satan is known for taking what God means for good and distorting it into something completely different.
Life is full of options and choices. But the most important – literally life and death – decision an individual can make is what to do about eternity. We only have two options – an eternity with God or an eternity without him. God gives us that choice – and we must choose. While it is never too late to make that choice while we still draw breath, by putting off the decision we are making a choice.
The best decision you can ever make is to live this life for Jesus. Don’t be distracted by all the other decisions you will need to make today. Truthfully, if you make the ultimate decision first, it will drastically impact the remainder of the decisions you will make.
Choose wisely!
Clay in the Hands 
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