{"id":39524,"date":"2026-03-09T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39524"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:53:13","slug":"260310-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260310-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Choice is Ours"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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In so many areas of life we have no choice. \u201cIt\u2019s not fair,\u201d we say. But the scales of life were forever tipped on the side of fairness when God planted a tree in the Garden of Eden. All complaints were silenced when Adam and his descendants were given free will, the freedom to make whatever eternal choice we desire. Any injustice in this life is offset by the honor of choosing our destiny in the next. Wouldn\u2019t you agree?<\/p>\n

It would have been nice if God had let us order life like we order a meal. Would\u2019ve been nice. But it didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0When it came to many details of your life on earth, you weren\u2019t given a choice, a voice or a vote.\u00a0 But when it comes to life after death, you were! In my book that seems like a good deal.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t you agree?<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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In so many areas of life we have no choice. \u201cIt\u2019s not fair,\u201d we say. But the scales of life were forever tipped on the side of fairness when God planted a tree in the Garden of Eden. All complaints were silenced when Adam and his descendants were given free will, the freedom to make whatever eternal choice we desire. Any injustice in this life is offset by the honor of choosing our destiny in the next. Wouldn\u2019t you agree?<\/p>\n

It would have been nice if God had let us order life like we order a meal. Would\u2019ve been nice. But it didn\u2019t happen. When it came to many details of your life on earth, you weren\u2019t given a choice, a voice or a vote. But when it comes to life after death, you were! In my book that seems like a good deal. Wouldn\u2019t you agree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39526,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39524\/revisions\/39526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}