The most important choice you'll ever make in your life

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”  Genesis 2:15-17

 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." Joshua 24:15

When is the last time you acted deliberately?  When did you last think, speak, or act consciously?  Is this normal for you, or do certain circumstances force deliberateness upon you?

The most important choice you’ll ever make is to simply choose. 

Before you can choose God, you must choose to always choose. 

Live deliberately and consciously, normally.

Before Adam could choose obedience or disobedience, he had to choose which fruit he would eat.  God gave him no choice as far as the forbidden fruit went.  But he had many other trees he could “freely eat from.”  He must choose to choose.  In other words, he first must discover his ability to make choices, and then commit to always use the ability to choose.

But we walk around like zombies, mindlessly speaking and acting.  Reacting.  We don’t know what we are doing or why we are doing it.  Why?  How did we come to be such slaves in the land of the free?

It’s because we think freedom is mindlessness, or the ability to simply do whatever we feel like.  Lawlessness. We have the minds and wills of two year olds. 

But God would have us as free as He is.