THE ABILITY TO CHOOSE WISELY.

CHOICE

Have you ever wondered: What is in human nature that makes man so prone to temptation? God created man in His image and after His likeness. But what makes man so vulnerable to sin? I discovered one major characteristic in Adam and Eve, and all mankind, that made them vulnerable to sin- CHOICE. Man has a nature of choice; he is a free moral agent. You have the choice to live right or live wrong. God never imposes Himself on anyone. If He did, it would erase His reputation as a just God. He gives you the choice to decide what you want. Any father who imposes himself on his children and insists they must love him will never know true love from those children. So every human being has this ability to choose, and God has Himself placed it in us. 

ADAM AND EVE

Now let me explain this with Adam and Eve. Eve fell for the serpent’s temptation in the Garden of Eden because she had the choice to. God had instructed Adam not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and he had in turn passed that instruction to Eve. But God left the tree there, giving them the right to exercise their choice. So when the devil came tempting Eve, it was her choice to either believe his lies and open the door for sin or to believe the truth of God’s word. But she allowed herself to be deceived by the devil and she took that fruit. Adam willfully chose to disobey God and fall for the temptation.

Sadly, this still happens in the lives of many Christians today. They willingly choose to disobey God. They choose to believe a lie and are led astray. This is why you must be very careful in your life and choose wisely to serve the living God.

THE FORCE OF CONTROL

You must decide to have control of the circumstances of your life. You must make up your mind to have dominion in life. But to do this, you cannot afford to operate or walk in the flesh, because control is a force that emanates from your spirit.

God has given you authority and you must make use of it. If you don’t take control, somebody else will, and usually it is always the wrong person. If you don’t guard your territory, someone will come and run you out of it. The bible says to guard your heart with all diligence for out of it proceeds the forces of life (Proverbs 4:23). If you have a garden you don’t tend, weeds will grow in it and before long it will begin to look like a bush. You must constantly remove those weeds as they shoot up. Satan, the god of this world system, constantly seeks to destroy your beautiful garden by planting seeds while you are not watching. That’s why you cannot afford to drop your guard; you must always be in control.

YOU HAVE THE ABILITY.

In Paul’s prayer for the Ephesian church (Eph 3:16), he was talking about dunamis, the flow of divine energy, God’s ability strengthening you on the inside by the Holy Ghost. This is so that you would not be a weakling. When you get up and say you will do something, you can do it because there is ability in you by the Holy Ghost. You may look weak on the outside but you are a giant within. Nothing can take you down because “…in all these things we are more than conquerors….” (see Romans 8:37).

Consistently say to yourself “I can do all things(including making the right choices in any situation) through Christ (the anointing) which strengthens me” (see Philippians 4:13) because that ability resides in you.

 

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DEUTERONOMY 30:19; JOSHUA 24:15; ROMANS 5:17; EPHESIANS 3.