Options
Life has many options. The waitress at the restaurant hands us a menu with so many choices that we find it hard to make up our mind. The car dealer has all kinds of vehicles with different options and at a variety of prices, with several ways to pay or finance. Colleges and universities try to attract young people with a wide range of programs and opportunities. Insurance companies vie for our business by telling of all sorts of benefits through their policies … and on and on it goes.
However, when it comes to eternity, there are only two options, heaven and hell, and when it comes to salvation there is only one choice and one way. Moses, near the end of his life, said to the children of Israel, “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19). Peter in addressing the Jewish rulers and elders said, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). What choice have you made?
