{"id":39557,"date":"2026-03-10T22:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39557"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:17:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:17:52","slug":"26-0311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0311\/","title":{"rendered":"The Value of One Good Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39559 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260311b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260311b.png 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260311b-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Think about the thief on the cross who repented! We know little about him, but we know this: He made some bad mistakes in his life. But is he spending eternity reaping the fruit of all the bad choices he made?\u00a0 No, just the opposite. He is enjoying the fruit of the one good choice he made.<\/p>\n<p>You may look back over your life and say, \u201cIf only. . .if only I could make up for those bad choices.\u201d \u00a0You can! \u00a0One good choice for eternity offsets a thousand bad ones on earth.<\/p>\n<p>How could two thieves see the same Jesus and one choose to mock him and the other choose to pray to him? When one prayed, Jesus loved him enough to save him. \u00a0When the other mocked, Jesus loved him enough to let him. He allowed him the choice. \u00a0And He does the same for you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39467\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1-unnamed-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=1c377a84be&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3D1c377a84be%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1772583866612000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0df-PrEkRsQJ3BHvDcyXZU\"><em>He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about the thief on the cross who repented! We know little about him, but we know this: He made some bad mistakes in his life. But is he spending eternity reaping the fruit of all the bad choices he made?\u00a0 No, just the opposite. He is enjoying the fruit of the one good choice he made.<\/p>\n<p>You may look back over your life and say, \u201cIf only. . .if only I could make up for those bad choices.\u201d \u00a0You can! \u00a0One good choice for eternity offsets a thousand bad ones on earth.<\/p>\n<p>How could two thieves see the same Jesus and one choose to mock him and the other choose to pray to him? When one prayed, Jesus loved him enough to save him. \u00a0When the other mocked, Jesus loved him enough to let him. He allowed him the choice. \u00a0And He does the same for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39557","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\/39557","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=39557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39560,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39557\/revisions\/39560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}