" WE ALL MAKE CHOICES MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY "

Why do you think God gives us freedom to choose? Why would God place a tree in the garden and then forbid Adam to eat from it? God wanted Adam and us to obey, but God gave Adam and us a chance in other words the freedom to choose. Without choice, Adam would have been like a prisoner, and his obedience would have been hollow. Now I'm of the mind that the two trees provided an exercise in choice, with rewards for choosing to obey and sad consequences for choosing to disobey. When you are faced with the choice, always choose to obey God. Unbelief and its Consequences are seen very clearly in the Word Of God. Now we all have misbehaved at one time or another. Listen to this, the people of God referred to some who chose to reject God, and God allowed them to do it. God does not usually stop us from making choices that are against his Will. He allows us to declare our supposed independence from him, even though he knows that in time we will become slaves to our own rebellious choices - we will lose our freedom not to sin. Does life without God look like freedom to you? Look more closely. There is no worse slavery than slavery to sin. Disobedience a foolish choice, now to me it is amazing that God set before the Israelites a choice between blessings and curses. It is even more amazing that most of them, through their disobedience, chose the curses. We have the same fundamental choice today. We can live for ourselves or live in service to God. To choose our own way is to travel on a dead-end road, but to choose God's way is to receive Eternal Life (John 5:24). Last Point: Okay we are aware that God gave Adam responsibility for the garden and told him not to eat from the tree of Knowledge of Good And Evil rather than physically preventing him from eating, God gave Adam a Choice, and thus the possibility of choosing wrongly. God still gives us Choices, and we, too, often Choose wrongly. These wrong Choices may cause us pain, but they can help us learn and grow and make better Choices in the future. Living with the consequences of our Choices teaches us to think and Choose more carefully. Until Next Time... Jim,