A take off on the famous line from the TV show Mission Impossible.
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“Your mission [your name], should you decide to accept it,…
followed by the famous ending, “This tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds.”
THE TOUGH DECISION AWAITS. You are thinking to yourself, Wow, I better have a great memory, Did I get all the necessary details?
You are overcome by a sense of urgency. The tape starts sizzling, a small cloud of disintegrating cellophane rises up into the air and you are left with the daunting task of deciding whether to take on a life imperiling mission of vital importance to the security of your country.
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Another Hollywood crisis of decision is from the Keeanu Reeves movie called The Matrix.
In the Matrix selected people are given the choice of whether they want to take a RED pill or the BLUE pill. It’s a choice of whether to live in the realm of reality of a life in rebellion to an all pervasive controlling machine- in order to give up a life of blissful ignorance for a life of potentiallysevere hardships. Yet, the tough choice contains the only opportunity to fight for real human liberty. On the other hand, the choice is to remain an ignorant slave of the computer generated life for the masses controlled by a force of some anti-human master that lives by imprisoning the true life essence of humans.
Cases are strongly made for both choices by both”good” and “bad” characters. It comes down to core beliefs. What are you willing to give you life for? Perhaps, you would rather, in effect, roll the dice and take a chance and adopt the a faithful attitude, that only the best consequences will occur. Either decision requires faith. How trustworthy is the object of your faith?
The decisions made in the examples, albeit from fiction, are ones of great consequence. Both include life or death situations in epic proportions. but as epic as both of these dilemmas may be they do not do offer an answer to the mystery and fear associated with death.
So many prepare for events in their life, taking all kinds of measures to ensure a successful outcome, but when it comes to death many people would often rather believe in an uncertainty, often being adamant and proud in the uncertainty.
THE ULTIMATE DECISION
Response to the gospel results in extreme consequences. There are strong elements of hope and fear in its and you tell yourself you would never succumb to fear tactics.
Consider this, if I could see that your brake line was severed and would fail while you were driving down a mountainous road that edged its way on the edge of a sheer wall, then that kind of warning would cause great fear rewarded with a common sense reaction. Your action was the result of fear, the fear of careening off the side of a mountain because you would not be able to stop your car before hitting the apex of dead man’s curve.
The point is, fear can often be a good motivator, the correct motivator, especially if it is linked to the truth. Therefore, what makes you fearful to resist God’s plan for salvation or accept God’s plan?
To accept God as revealed through the Bible as the holy, righteous and just Sovereign also means to accept the Creator of the heavens and the earth, who through His Son offers mercy, kindness and forgiveness of sins and everlasting life in God’s kingdom.
The alternative? Live a life of eternity apart from God and God’s blessings.
This is the what the Bible proclaims.
Each of us has that decision to make, tantamount to that transforming life pivoting epic.
MISSION: UNIFICATION?
Is the mission impossible? Is true peace in the world made possible through a just and unifying force? I would venture to say that it will be impossible to top the effort and sovereign plan set forth by the Creator and Author of Life.
God mercifully waits for those who will come to belief.
Freedom of choice has consequences. Many will remain against living in the presence of God. God is also Love and love cannot force a commitment. For those who have not, each passing day is another opportunity to come to the saving grace of God through the Lord Jesus Christ.
From the Gospel of John, we find Jesus’ prayer for unification, that believers “may be as one”.
Jesus Christ our High Priest continues to pray for all who will become part of God’s kingdom.
“My prayer is not for them [the disciples] alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.” – John 17:20-26
For a one minute explanation of the Gospel, watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCP9UcC7BzE
For a review of the Ten Commandments: https://www.challenyee.com/the-ten-commandments/
CKY
P.S. Typos and all, I do not use AI.