Choices

Watch as a young mother tries to get her 2-year-old to make a choice. "You can have fish or chicken" she tells him. She limits his choice to just two because he's too young to understand beyond that. Choice often allows a wider variety of options, but it also allows a person to reject them.

Adam and Eve were in the best possible environment. God had given them freedom to eat of all the trees in Eden. He drew boundary lines around just one tree! They had a choice, and it should have been a no-brainer to choose wisely. But their choice was tragic.

Some hate God for what they see as His restrictions. They may even accuse Him of trying to 'control' their lives. But God gives us a choice, just as He did Adam and Eve.

Yes, God draws boundary lines, but they're for our protection. David understood this. He wrote, "You, through your commandments, make me stronger than my enemies ... I understand more than the ancients, because I keep Your precepts. I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep Your Word" (Ps. 119:98-101)

".... Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat ...." (Genesis 2:16-17)

God cares so much about us that He gives us boundary lines so that we'll choose what's right. His commandments were given to fulfill us, not frustrate us.

"TalkerCat"