Your Choices Can Change Your Destination!

     However you choose to live you life is up to you. You could have no plan for your life and walk with nowhere to go. Most people go and when something bad or good happens they make the best of them. Others have a secret plan to be wealthy or be famous. They want everything in this life, but if you were to ask them, they would deny it. Some other people adopt plans of other people. They have no plan for their life. Perhaps the most saddest of all is people who drift through life with no plan. They never become what they want to be or are meant to be. They bounce from experience to experience without learning or changing. These are not our only options. We can choose to follow Gods plan for us like Saul of Tarus or Apostle Paul, did with his life. 
 Sometimes the only time we can see is when we look back. When Paul was on trial before Agrippa he had time to look back on his life and his ministry. While he was on trial  he used his time to witness to the people about Jesus. If he hadn't what do you think would have happened  if anybody got saved they would not be saved they would probably be somewhere they didn't want to be.  Paul had a choice to make. before he met Jesus he was a young lawyer. Saul was a expert on Hebrew law and he was on his way to a big career as a lawyer in Israel.  When he heard Jesus had started a church he thought of the old testament law.  So he set out to destroy anyone who worshiped Christ. So he got the the authority from chief priest to arrest or even kill Christians. He had done all he could to find and capture the disciples of Jesus. When Paul met Jesus on the road to Damascus and when he did he had a choice to make either accept him or reject him. Jesus did not meet him by accident he met him for a purpose. Jesus wanted Saul to be a witness to the gentiles, Saul knew that the path he was taking was a tough path and it was. he was rejected by the church, he was often beaten and ran out of town but he followed Jesus Christ.

The Great Power of Prayer

          There are times in our life that we have to make a choice. Whether it be a big one like whether you are going to college or not, or a little one like which shoes to wear that day.We should always pray on our choice before we make a big one. Just like Jesus he did not have to come to earth and die for us. Philippians 2:6-8 says "Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."  

        There is not a force on this earth that could have taken Jesus to the cross and made him die. It was his choice and the bible says that Jesus prayed three time one that night and each time he can to the same conclusion. In Matthew 26:39 it says "And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt". If you notice in his prayer he addressed god as Father. It reveals that Jesus had a special relationship with God. Then Jesus mentions a cup the word cup stands for the upcoming suffering. So Jesus knew about the suffering that he would suffer for you and me, but he went anyway so that we could be saved. 

        He asked if it possible for it to pass from him. that does not mean that he was reluctant to go to the cross, or die for our sins. that means he just saw the disgrace and shame that can with it. he saw that he would be forsaken by God and that he would suffer unmentionable agony to redeem sinful mankind. So in the end Jesus' end conclusion was to go. 

        We need to realize that Jesus had a choice to do Gods will, or his own will. We will never know the outcome if Jesus had of called down the angels to take him off the cross, but he choose the path to save all of us and we should all thank him for that. When the roman soldiers came to get him he did not struggle he went with them. When they were nailing them to the cross he layed there because he loved us and knew what God had planned for mankind. We should remember when we come to a choice that we could either do our own will or go the path that god wants us to take to our ultimate future is just to pray.