Every believer, at some point in their life’s history, faces a most important choice: “Choose you this day whom ye will serve” (Josh. 24:15). “Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Jesus said to Matthew, “Follow Me.” Matthew’s response: “He arose and followed Him.”
“I would give the world to have your experience,” said a wealthy man to a devoted Christian lady. “That’s just what it cost me,” she replied. “I gave the world for it” (Matt. 6:24). Choose Christ who said to those who followed Him, “Be of good cheer. I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
A Christian employer offered his four employees the choice of a Bible or $20 as a New Year’s gift. The first three took the money, but the fourth, a teenager, said, “As you say the Book is good, I will take it and read it to my mother.” When he opened the Book, it was his great surprise to find inside it a $50 bill! “All shall be added unto you” (Matt. 6:33). “Νο good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly” (Psa. 84:11).
On the tombstone of a French prince is inscribed: “Here lies a man of the best intentions.” And these words would make a truthful epitaph for many another headstone, for many have intended to follow the Lord after accepting Him as their Savior, but failed to put their intentions into actions. “Choose you this day whom ye will serve” (Josh. 24:15). “Choose life” (Deut. 30:19).
One Thousand Tales Worth Telling (adapted)