FOR YOU ARE FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE (Psalm 139:14)

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 Someone asked what is the most miraculous thing. The answer was “You.” Your first part of the journey began in your mother’s womb as a single cell. God wrote on that single cell all your body parts - your heart, lungs, brain, eyes, ears, mouth, liver, spleen, gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, limbs, reproductive organs and covered you with skin. You drew your sustenance, including oxygen, from your mother without your blood ever mixing with her blood, making you a unique creation. This journey was totally under God’s control.

In due course, you came out, and God breathed into you the breath of life, and you began your second part of the journey. While God gave you growth, you were under the authority and influence of your parents, the community, and the culture. They nurtured you to be a professional and ready to start your family.

Now, in the third part of the journey, you can choose the broad way to live for yourself, seeking name, fame and wealth, which can lead to destruction. According to Scripture, not the Devil, but “The love  of money is the root of all evil” (1 Timothy 6:10). Alternatively, you can choose the more challenging narrow path, living for others as well. Most people, not only those who rejected Christ but also church going, bible reading, sincere but disobedient Christians, chose the comfortable broad way. Only a few choose the difficult and narrow path of obedience to go and bring forth lasting fruit. (Matt. 7:13-14; John 14:15; 15:16). No one can destroy iron but its rust; similarly, no As long as you live, there is an opportunity to change from the broad way to the narrow way. Then, "It is given to man to die once and then judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). After the judgment, depending on your choice, begins the fourth and final leg of the journey, it is either eternity with your Creator or forever away from Him.  (John 14:6)

The Lord Jesus said, "As the Father has sent me, so I send you” – and before his ascension gave the final commandment: “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptise them and teach them to obey all my commandments, and I will be with you till the end"  (John 20:21; Matthew 28:19,20). Whether or not to obey this commandment has eternal consequences. 

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