It Is Not Too Late: Choose Life

People of God, God is near and always inviting us to choose life with intention again and again. I want you to think this morning of a time when you had to make a choice between something good and something bad. How is that different from making a choice between two good things? Usually, most of our choices as people of God is not so much between the good and the evil, the good and the bad. Most of our choices is sometimes is a choice of we want the best of the good things around us. [00:22:08] (59 seconds)  #chooseIntentionally

This was a pivotal, very important, critical moment for their life where Moses is seeing that he need to change leadership was going to be changed from Moses to Joshua, and Moses was preparing God's people for what was ahead of them. And so in this season of Lent, we already started from Wednesday, a forty day journey to Easter. How do we prepare ourself for the days that are ahead? We prepare ourself by choosing. Amen? [00:24:49] (44 seconds)  #prepareByChoosing

And that is the message of of Easter. Did I say Christmas? No. Is the message of Easter that it is not too late because of the resurrected hope that we have. In this season, we are going to be reminded that it's not too late to be better. Amen? It's not too late to be a better version of yourself. It's not too late to be spiritually vital. [00:27:01] (32 seconds)  #resurrectedHope

It's not too late to to do all the things that you want to do to be a a better Christian. It's it's never too late in the calendar of God is not too late. It's not too late to be emotionally healthy again. It's not too late no matter all the mental pressures and the emotional pressures that are are on you, it is never too late to get well. And that means that it's not too late to be healed. Amen? It's never too late in the sight of God to give us more and more life. [00:27:34] (48 seconds)  #neverTooLateForHealing

But, you know, sometimes we feel that God is distant. Sometime we feel we have distanced ourselves from God, and yet there is a reassurance that not only God remain with us, but God want us to cling to him. God want us to hold fast to him. And like the people of Israel, when they felt God was distant in Exodus chapter 32, Aaron made a golden cow for them so that they can see that God is close to them. [00:31:03] (40 seconds)  #clingToGod

Sometimes our culture makes some golden cows for us so that when we look at that, we can see that God is close to us. But those golden cows rather push us away from God because God want our heart to cling to him. He said, use yourself the Lord thy God and only him, and and anything that any golden calf that, comes between us and our God becomes our God with a a small dream becomes our God. [00:31:43] (42 seconds)  #bewareGoldenCalves

So the way we choose life is to draw, do everything in this season to draw nearer to God. Even when we feel God is distant, we draw nearer to God. This week, I I was with some of our conference leaders, and some people were asking me that and some of them are clergy. They are pastors. They said they cannot see hope in this season. [00:32:24] (33 seconds)  #drawNearEvenWhenDistant

It doesn't matter what is going on out there. It doesn't matter what the devil is doing out there. It doesn't matter what the cultural things going on out there and all the political things going on out there. In Christ, we have hope, and Christ in us, the hope of glory. Do I have some witness this Sunday morning? Amen. [00:33:25] (23 seconds)  #hopeOfGlory