“You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.” “Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.” Psalm 2:9, 12b
Choices. It’s estimated that the average adult makes a whopping 35,000 choices per day. Yes, you read that right, 35,000. Most are minor, get out of bed or snooze once more, what breakfast cereal to partake of, what route to take to work, and a slightly bigger one, what type of tacos to have for dinner? The way you approach your daily choices determines the way you approach life. Some people take each decision very seriously, and some, loosely flow through life letting life take the reins. But regardless of how you approach or view life choices, you must admit, they are choices and we are all responsible for our own. And when it comes to making bad choices, you will have to eventually fess up and face the choice you made. Yet, for the single biggest choice that will ever be made in a life, people pretend there is not a choice, that they can ignore it, and that somehow, someway, it will just work itself out in the end. Of course, that decision is…what will you do with Jesus Christ?
The Psalms pull no punches, and why should they? Written by men like King David that were on the run for their lives from those threatening to take it, they were at the brutal core of honesty and humility before the Lord. They saw things exactly as they were and in that raw honesty, we get an accurate portrait painted of God, that today, would never be allowed to hang in a museum. Psalm 2 paints that portrait in juxtaposed contrast. The stark black and white leaps off the canvas and strikes the viewer in its complex simplicity. The bulk of the Psalm states a truth that is beyond obvious today. Man is in direct opposition to God, the work of God, and the people that attempt to do that work. The nations rage against God, the kings of the Earth conspire against His Laws, and, in this moment, we see the state of the world today…the unrighteous seek to “burst the bonds and break the cords” of the Law of the Lord.
Whatever God’s Word proclaims, someone today is fiercely fighting against it. God’s Word says that the life of a child is a gift from God, a reward directly from Him. (Psalm 127:3) Yet the world fights to allow women to have the right to end that life gifted by God. God’s Word says marriage was created by God with a very specific set of rules. (Matthew 19:4-6) Yet the world fights to allow anyone and everyone to take marriage and make it whatever they want. God’s Word says He made them male and female to reproduce and fill the Earth. (Genesis 5:2, 1:28) Yet the world has created genders, changed existing genders, and continues to do so at whim. God’s Word says sex was made by God for the confines of His Holy marriage. (1 Corinthians 7:2) Yet the world says allow anyone and everyone to use sex as a tool for personal gratification. Look around, whatever the Word of God says, you see the world breaking the bonds and casting away the cords of it just as Psalm 2 predicts. But in the very last verse of Psalm 2 we see a choice. You see, rather than rebelling against God and His Law as many in the world choose, you have a choice. Instead of rejecting God, you can embrace God. Instead of creating an untuned cacophony of your own music, you can instead make the choice to be in perfect harmony with your Creator. The simple fact that you desire to rebel against God’s Word and do what brings you personal pleasure, tells you that we are all born into the first group, sinners choosing to reject God’s Law. But God, in His infinite love, grace, and mercy, gives us a choice. He sent His only Son Jesus Christ here to live, die, and be the prefect sacrifice upon a cross so that we can make a choice that grants eternal life. And when that choice is made, He promises us His blessings. Today, make the one single choice that will not change your day or your year, but your eternity. Admit that you have sinned, admit that your unrighteous sin separates you from a perfectly righteous God, and cry out to Jesus to save you from that sin. His promise rings forever true, He will save all that call upon the power of His name. Make the choice today, a choice that will deliver you into the blessings of the One in whom you take refuge.
“But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15
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