{"id":39693,"date":"2026-03-23T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39693"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:24:24","slug":"26-0324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0324\/","title":{"rendered":"The Privilege of Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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It would have been nice if God had let us order life like we order a meal. I\u2019ll take good health and a high IQ. I\u2019ll pass on the music skills, but give me a fast metabolism. Would\u2019ve been nice, but it didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

When it came to your life on earth, you weren\u2019t given 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? Have we been given any greater privilege than that of choice?<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve made some bad choices in life, haven\u2019t you? You\u2019ve chosen the wrong friends, maybe the wrong career, even the wrong spouse. You look back and say, \u201cIf only. If only I could make up for those bad choices.\u201d Well\u2026 you can. One good choice for eternity offsets a thousand bad ones on earth. The choice is yours.<\/p>\n

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

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It would have been nice if God had let us order life like we order a meal. I\u2019ll take good health and a high IQ. I\u2019ll pass on the music skills, but give me a fast metabolism. Would\u2019ve been nice, but it didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

When it came to your life on earth, you weren\u2019t given 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? Have we been given any greater privilege than that of choice?<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve made some bad choices in life, haven\u2019t you? You\u2019ve chosen the wrong friends, maybe the wrong career, even the wrong spouse. You look back and say, \u201cIf only. If only I could make up for those bad choices.\u201d Well\u2026 you can. One good choice for eternity offsets a thousand bad ones on earth. The choice is yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39693","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\/39693","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=39693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39696,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39693\/revisions\/39696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}