Our C-Day

-DAY. Your ultimate day of choice. Your day when you decide once and for all whether you are going to serve the Lord, or not.

No matter what the circumstances, there can never be an excuse for rebellion against the Lord if He is the wonderful, holy, righteous God that the scriptures tell us He is. Satan and certain other angels rebelled against God. And since misery apparently loves company, and rebels resent authority, we find Satan tempting the first woman to rebel and fall away from God. Why God chose to make the tree of life in the midst of the garden the chosen battlefield I do not know. However, what I do know is that all of us have our C-day. Our day of destiny in which we make that once and for all decision.

God basically told Adam that he set before him life and good, and death and evil. Life and good would be his if he trusted and obeyed the Lord. Death and evil would be his if he partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the midst of the garden, a paradox of all paradoxes, but a choice, nonetheless.


Moses addressed the people of Israel regarding their choice:

But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. "See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them, I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and possess. I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."
(Deu 30:14-20)

Joshua addressed the people of Israel regarding their choice:

"Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD! And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."
(Jos 24:14-15)

And then about 1500 years later in a town called Bethlehem of Judea, a Savior was born.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
(Joh 1:14)

But the two verses before the above verse again face us with a choice. To move from being simply a believer to a RECEIVER of God's gift of salvation, or not to do so.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
(Joh 1:12-13)

Have you had your C-Day? Your day of ultimate choice? Your day when you once and for all received God's gift of grace and salvation in Jesus Christ and committed to serve Him? It is this right standing with God through the shed blood of the Christ that ultimately brings us peace on earth and good will toward men.

Yours in Him,
Pastor B.