Who Do You Trust the Most? It's Decision Time

Why is it when we do something wrong and another points it out, we become upset with or even angry with the person telling us, not ourselves?   Is it because  the person forces us to make a decision? 

We either choose to draw closer to the one wanting us to live so we go to heaven or we withdraw from that person and choose to turn to the ones who would support or even encourage us in our wrongdoing  -- and

who are contributing to our missing heaven.  

There’s only two choices.   As Jesus said, “You are either with me

or against me.”  There’s no middle ground or third choice.   

How sad we often let pride, hurt, money, loneliness, and misunderstandings cause us to miss the one thing that should mean the most to us.  Hell is described as a horrific place, so much worse than our feelings of  some emptiness today. 

If we would choose to pursue ways of overcoming  our aching deficits in moral ways and seek God’s help, He would not only heal us, He would fill us with more than we humanly need.  But, realizing this creates another decision time.

Sometimes letting go of what’s wrong  and sinful in our lives is more scary than trusting the Lord to supply what we are currently missing.  Yet, we know that God won’t answer our prayers while we willfully continue in our sin.  He only responds when we repent and change.

One of my favorite Scriptures is in James that says “We don’t have because we don’t ask.”  God wants to fill us completely with what we need.  He doesn't want us hurting or lonely.  He doesn't want us hungry or estranged.  So the question is: Have you asked the Lord to relieve your pain?  Or do you trust yourself and, perhaps, another to satisfy what’s missing?  It's another decision time.

We can pretend we aren't making a decision, but we can't avoid doing so.  Our actions display our choices.