Decisions, decisions-life is full of them. It is doubtful if we can go a waking moment without making one. The quality of our lives depends a great deal on the quality of our decisions. Some are big and some are small. What would you say was life’s biggest decision of all? Choice of spouse? Career? Area to live?
If the biggest decision means the one with the greatest consequence, for the longest duration, then there is a decision far greater than any other. This is the decision to believe on Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. When one makes that decision to believe in the Lord Jesus and accept Him as God’s only and beloved Son, he (or she) receives the gift of eternal life. “The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom. 6:2323For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)). This gift will last throughout eternity. It will never cease. It will bring greater joy than any other decision. The very atmosphere of heaven will be pure joy, and in heaven nothing will ever interrupt or cast a shadow on that joy.
On the other hand, those who never come to Christ as Lord and Savior must perish, which means to pass into the darkness of a lost eternity. Hell will be a place of no joy, no hope, and no light. The suffering of those in hell will never cease. The love of sin brings people to hell. The love of sin makes them deaf to God’s entreaty to believe on the Savior. It is because men love sin that Satan gets so much control over their lives. Farmers used to put rings in the noses of oxen to make them do what their masters wanted. The love of sin is what Satan uses to make men do his bidding. Oh, that you would recognize sin for being as hateful to God as it is and turn to the Lord Jesus with all your heart.
Only God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, can break the power of sin and set men free. The moment you believe in Christ you are forgiven, and you can be as sure of heaven as if you were already there. Then the Savior will help you win a daily victory over indwelling sin and help you break any evil habits you may have formed when you lived without Him.
Nobody can make the decision to receive Christ as Savior for you. It is a decision you alone must make. Others may pray for you, and they may seek to show you the way, but you must take the step of faith that brings you as a lost sinner to the Lord Jesus alone. With so much to lose (your sins and misery in this world) and so much to gain (eternal life-eternal joy!), don’t let another moment pass before you decide for Christ.
God can offer this incredible gift of eternal life to every human being because of a decision He made in eternity past. Before the foundation of the earth was laid He made the decision to send His Son into the world. He knew man would turn away from Him and plunge into sin and rebellion against Him. If anyone could ever be saved, there would have to be a redeemer. The Lord Jesus, God’s only and beloved Son, came into the world to be that Redeemer. On the cross, He gave His life’s blood to make the one atoning sacrifice that can take away sin. He could do this because He was God, and He also became Man. As Man, He could give His life as a sacrifice for sin; as God, that sacrifice would have infinite power to cancel guilt. Nothing short of this great sacrifice could ever deal with the problem of sin to God’s satisfaction.
Believers are redeemed by the blood of Christ. The word “redeemed” means to be “bought back.” Man has sold himself under sin, but at the cross the Lord Jesus became the Redeemer for every member of the human race who will receive Him.
There is no other way to be redeemed from the awful power of sin but through faith in Christ and His precious blood. Will you not seriously consider the claims of the Lord Jesus and make the decision to believe on Him for eternal life? No other decision in your lifetime will ever be as important, or bring you as much joy, as the decision to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Decide for Christ today,
And God’s salvation see;
Yield soul and body, heart and will,
To Him who died for thee.
Christ alone can save,
Break the power of sin; Christ doth fully satisfy
The heart that cleaves to Him.