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WEDNESDAY THOUGHT 9/24/08

The Chosen Ones
 
No, I’m not talking about Obama here.  It seems to me that we are all chosen ones — all who acknowledge God and wrestle with faith and our roles as God’s followers — in a grand, biblical epic between good and evil.  (That’s a great and universal theme, one for which I believe we are hard wired to love, repeated endlessly in such stories as The Bible, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia, pretty much every classical western,  and many video games.)
 
It’s a story of good versus evil, of spiritual warfare and, most of all, of choices — free choices and free will.  Some stand firm, sword in hand; others go over to the dark side; and many, it seems to me, wander around trying to avoid the battle lines altogether and hope for the best. 
 
My point:  Do you accept your commission as one of God’s chosen ones?  It’s a simple choice, one we have the opportunity to make — yea or nay — every day.  Choose wisely, Chosen One.  — jri
 
“I will give you all their authority and splendor, for
it has been given to me, and I can give it to
anyone I want to.  So, if you worship me, it will
all be yours.”
        –    Satan
               (Luke 4:6-7)