Your move...

Reach out and grab an object next to you. Look at this object and observe: not only is just the object in your hand, no, but also the fate of the object. How you deal with this object depends on past experiences and influences. You may discard it, destroy it, treasure it, steal it, gift it, loan it, sell it, or simply choose to put it back down and leave it be. Depending on what you do decide to do with this object, there can be great rewards, terrible consequences, or no noticeable result.

The same is true of many, if not all, things in life. What you do with that in front of you, whether physically or metaphorically, is up to you. For example, think of a task you need to complete. Depending on the type of person you are, your convictions, how you've been raised, outside influences, and your past experiences, you may diligently complete the task, ignore the task, procrastinate completing the task, or find someone else to do the task.

This principle remains true in the cases of what you do with a house, a job, or a trip, how you respond to a frustrating situation, a difficult decision, or a joyous occasion, and what your reaction will be to the sight of a fellow human in need, the distress of a child, or the offer of a gift.

Your response to situations becomes burdensome when financial harm could potentially be the cost, it becomes a source of insomnia when the fate of a relationship is at risk, and it becomes wildly frightening when a life is at stake. However, the heinous paradox is that when the eternal fate of our, or our neighbors', souls are in the balance, we become indifferent and choose not to ponder on the topic. Our minds close, and we denounce the thought as irrelevant to life, unimportant in death, and inconvenient at this time.

So, my question for you is this: what will you do with this offer put in front of you? It is the offer of the God of all time and every situation in bodily form, reaching out his holy and nail-scarred hand, wishing to take from you and onto himself your sins and wrongdoings, and wishing to present you before his Father and your God faultless and blameless. Will you look at this offer and denounce it as a lie? Will you procrastinate in responding to it? Will you mock the offer as something for lesser beings? Will you demand all the more proof than what is already readily visible and available before accepting or denying the offer, thereby in reality denying the offer? Or, in humility and submission, will you accept the offer by faith, based upon the vast evidence in its favor?

And, if you're one of those who has already take up the offer, what will you choose to do with it? Will you keep it locked up inside of you as something too treasured to share? Will you consistently say you need to tell others about the offer, but also consistently deny opportunities presented to you to tell others? Will you forget about the joy of receiving the offer, box it up, and keep it in the attic of your mind for the sake of having it to reminisce upon from time to time, but never thanking the Almighty Hand that gave it to you? Will you say you are an inadequate vessel for spreading the news of the offer, while ignoring the fact that, at the very least, you know more about the offer than those with whom you would be talking? Or, with faith in your God and Savior to lead and guide your thoughts, words, and actions, will you take and make the initiative to talk with those in and out of your sphere of influence about this splendid gift of gifts that has been given to you?


Your move.

~ by Kyle Vegh