Love me and I will set you free, follow me and you will see your lives transformed, believe and you shall live with me in eternity.  What a simple concept this offer given by God to every man and woman.  As practical people, skeptics or even those with a “show me” attitude, this idea is largely un-testable.  For how may any man believe without believing?  That is the elusive quantity of faith, that it cannot be experienced without a personal decision to follow its hopefulness.  That is why Christians, who have chosen to live a visible, audit-able life walked with Jesus are essential to God’s offer of salvation.  Without physical evidence of those willing to live by faith, faith remains in its conceptual, theoretical form.  Therefore each of us, as Christians, serves an essential role/purpose in God’s Plan simply by walking in the light of Jesus.

Could God decide to reveal Himself to every man and woman, removing the veil that shrouds their current understanding?  Absolutely.  Will He choose to enlighten every one to His presence and sovereignty?  Absolutely.  Though these answers are in the affirmative, the component or variable that matters most in life has been extracted from the positive answer, time.  Time does not matter to God for He is outside of its constraining impact, but He uses time to demonstrate His patience, His love and His sovereignty.  God has told each of us what we must know in order to make a belief decision, but each of us has also been granted the time to come to that decision.  That is the nature of love, patience and the consequence of judgment, in that each of us gets to make a personal choice within the impending confines of time.  Many chastise or mock God because of time, misunderstanding that because He has not yet enacted judgment against all wickedness and unbelief, believing falsely that He will continue to hold back His Hand of Sovereign Righteous Judgment.  God’s patience is demonstrative of His Grace and Love for His creation.  We as Christians must have the character to warn those who incorrectly define this patience as an excuse to remain in sin or take a posture of mediocrity, for each of these lead to eternal separation from God.

God has revealed Himself to creation in methods that are indisputable so that each of us has no excuse when choosing to believe or ignore His graceful offer.  Equally every Christian has “no excuse” when choosing to ignore God’s direction and purpose for our lives.  Our judgment will be in giving explanation to Almighty God for our inaction or missed stewardship of the time, talents and power we have been given for His Glory.  Isn’t it amazing that love, time and choice are intertwined.  We cannot love without choice, we cannot demonstrate love without time and we cannot choose to believe without love for God.  A love and a choice that He made outside of time to offer each of us the salvation we crave desperately.  Jesus came into time, accepting the cup of God’s role, choosing to love us more that His own life, fulfilling His part in God’s plan for humanity.  What would have happened to each of us Christians if He had chosen otherwise?  Aren’t you glad that He chose to love us enough to die for all creation in the time that He had here on Earth?

May we as Christians choose not to serve?  Absolutely.  For love requires choice, and each of us must make our own.  The question is not focused upon the quality and efficacy of our excuses, but rather on the quality and the measure of our belief in the  devotion and Love of God.  For He loved us absolutely, we cannot therefore offer any excuse acceptable to dismissing us from  the responsibility of telling every one we know of His Love for the World.  We are simply left with God’s gift of a choice, made in time based on love for they are inseparable.  Will you choose in the timing allotted to serve God’s Love for your life by pointing others to the Salvation found only through belief in Jesus?  Will you walk in the light and truth of Christianity, such that everyone coming in to contact with you shall see the benefits of belief?  Will you show the truth of faith by telling people our time is running short for the night is coming when the opportunity for choice will run out.  What will you say to a Sovereign God when you meet Him?  I hope there will be no need for excuse.  In the Mighty Name of Jesus I pray for your conviction and strength.