Do you
have an area of your life where you sit on a fence? I believe that we all have
such an area. We regard it as a place of safety, but it is not. We yearn for it
to keep fear at arm's length, but all it does is keep hope away. We sit on the
fence because not sitting on the fence means that we must make a decision one
way or the other. If we get off the fence, we will be forced to commit to
something. We will either believe or not believe. We will either have faith or
not have faith. We will either accept or reject. We are afraid to commit because
we might be wrong. On the other hand we are afraid to not commit, because we
might be wrong. So we are imprisoned on our fence. The fence has not become a
place of safe retreat, but it has become a jail. Is it so hard to realize that
remaining on the fence takes more spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional
energy that making a decision? Staying on the fence is really a choice. It is a
choice to remain in bondage instead of discovering freedom.
“If serving the
Lord
seems undesirable to you,” Joshua told the Israelites, “then choose for
yourselves this day who 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, NIV). Make a decision,
Joshua declares. Choose who you are going to serve–one or the other. Don’t serve
who is the most convenient at a certain time. Don’t remain on your fence. Make a
choice, but remember with that decision you either choose life or
death.
“Now choose
life,” Moses told the Israelites, “so that you and your children may
live and that you may love the Lord your
God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is
your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your
fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” (Deuteronomy 30:19b-20,
NIV).
Do you sit
on a fence believing one way one day, and another the next? Choose to make the
Lord your life. Rid yourself of those other “idols” that pull you the other way.
Don’t sit on your fence and serve who is most convenient at the moment. The Holy
Spirit offers freedom to choose Him–to choose true life. Let go of the bondage
of your fence and rejoice in freedom in Him. “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the
Lord is, there is freedom” (2 Corinthians 3:17, NIV).
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