Do you like to hear the truth? At what point will you bow down to God? When will you relinquish your desire to be in control? Will only happen when you have grown old and are nearing the end of your days? Will it be when you have experienced a disastrous event?
Truth can be a hard reality. We often go about our daily lives ignoring the hard truth. We live in a fantasy we think we control. Our desire for everything to be perfect causes us to live fake lives, pretending everything is good. We try to sweep the unpleasant reality under the rug.
The unpleasant reality I’m talking about is not what the news blasts at us. No, it is the fact that we are not in control. The fact that we allow others to control us. They tell us what we should think. They tell us what clothes we should buy. They tell us how we should like and dislike. All of this causes us to develop biases…and we deny it.
There is one truth that all of us will have to face one day. Everyone will bow before God. We can deny it all we want. However, we are told over and over and over in the Bible that it will happen. Our choice is simple. We can bow before him during this life, learning to walk in his ways, and follow Jesus. Or we can deny it, perhaps even going to our grave denying it, and bow to him when he comes to judge the world. The second choice ends with us being sent to eternal torment. The first choice puts in his presence for an eternity of joy.
We have a choice to believe the truth or deny it. But one day we will see the truth face-to-face. At that point, there will be no denying it. In fact, we will be incapable of denying it. Our choice is simple yet made difficult by the pressures of the world. We need to make the hard choice and choose God over the world.
I pray we all seek to know the truth. I pray we know that we will all bow down the Lord. I pray we make the choice to bow before him now and choose an eternal life of joy over an eternal life of torment. Seek the truth. Bow before God today. Choose eternal life with God.
Psalm 22:27-28
All the ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the Lord;
and all the families of the nations
shall worship before him.
For dominion belongs to the Lord,
and he rules over the nations.
Marty Pressey 