Word-Filled Wednesday ~#27~ You Can Lead a Horse to Water...

PASSAGE: "The people to whom I [God] am sending you are obstinate and stubborn . . . You must speak My words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they are rebellious . . ." ~ Ez. 2: 4, 6, 7

"Yet your countrymen say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' But it is their way that is not just . . . And if a wicked man turns away from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live by doing so." ~ Ez. 33:17, 19

LESSON LEARNED: We hear it all the time: "How can a loving God send people to hell?" My answer is: "He doesn't. People send themselves to hell." And then I explain . . .

Our time on earth is where our eternal decisions are made. We have the CHOICE of accepting Christ's death on the cross as payment for our sins & His glorious resurrection as the promise of our eternal life in heaven, in the very Presence of God, as a free gift IF ONLY we will simply accept it.

There's also an old saying: "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink." In the simplest of terms, this fits what happens when we share salvation through Jesus Christ with unbelievers & they reject it. Remember, they are not rejecting us (though it feels that way), they are rejecting Jesus. So sad, but true. I shudder to think of an eternity spent in misery, separated from God and all whom I loved, while some eternal "video" continually replays all the occasions I had to accept Christ as Savior and Lord . . . and didn't.

As God told Ezekiel, we are responsible to tell, they are responsible to accept.

Go tell.

Come & join Nancy at A Country Mom & I, if you are not already participating! Each Wednesday, we dig into the Word of God & share what we are leaning. All you have to do is share a passage you have read during your devotions, share the lesson you have learned from the Lord & then connect with others who are doing the same & comment on their blogs. Let's learn from the Lord & each other.

Blessings from Ohio . . . Kim<><