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 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 the 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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