I Choose Righteous

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
I CHOOSE RIGHTEOUS
Prov 10:29
29 The way of the LORD is a refuge for the righteous,
but it is the ruin of those who do evil.
NIV
Once more I am faced with this contrast but this time it is all about what God is and to whom. His way is the only way to live if I want to live for all eternity. Now is that the only reason I live his way? Is the fact his way is a refuge for me the purpose of my following him? Sure I desire eternal life, who doesn’t? Why would anyone choose not to have eternal life? That may have been the initial impulse which drove my search for God. In fact it was the drive to find eternal life which brought me to God. But through the years of living in fellowship with him, I have found even more security than eternal life. I have found a peace, a hiding place from the ravages, havoc and chaos of this world. But the greatest of all the refuges of God is the cross of Jesus Christ. In the cross I find total forgiveness of my sin, past, present and future. What more could I ever need? But for those who refuse to acknowledge Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior will come to ruin, to an end, a perishing that will not be eternally happening, but an absolute end of any life whatsoever. God has declared is so. Why would any intelligent person choose ruin over eternal life in the everlasting presence of God? Can the pleasures of evil be that good? True, when I sin, I fail him, and I know it thus I repent and seek forgiveness, but those times do not mean I have left his way, in fact, my repentance and seeking of forgiveness is his way. Those others simply never repent, nor ask for forgiveness, because they refuse to acknowledge the need to do so. They simply live for their own self pleasure without considering his way at all. That is sad. But the choice is for the taking, righteous or evil. I choose righteous.