The Right Choice

"Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time," -1 Peter 5.6

As humans, we have one main choice to make, and that choice impacts our entire existence. The choice is what our reaction to God will be, and 1 Peter 5.6 opens with the answer that we should choose. When it comes to God, He created us with free will, and that free will has given us the ability to choose if we will humbly submit to Him, or arrogantly reject Him.

God is the creator of the Universe; He spoke it into existence, I can't even get my dog to listen to me half the time, and He commanded light to begin and it did. God is perfect in holiness and absolute in power. There is nothing that can challenge Him or rival Him, and yet we tiny humans (don't get me started on just how little we are) have the arrogance to ignore Him, explain Him away, or strait up reject Him. We have free will, so we can do whatever we want, but the Bible is clear that one day we will all submit to God.

I could write for a long time on this, but I'm going to fight the inclinations of my INTJ personality and be brief. God, creator of the Universe, absolute authority over everything within, and outside of, that universe, and perfect standard of holiness will have the submission of everything He has ever made. In Philippians 2 it says, "For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." (vs. 9-11)

Every knee one day WILL bow at the very mention of the name of Christ. Every tongue one day Will confess that Jesus is Lord, and all of this will be done so that God, holy, powerful, creator, will be glorified.

Every person will face God one day, and on that day every person will bow before Christ, declare Him as Lord, and glorify God by these words and actions. What happens after that depends on if this is the first time those actions have taken place. Those who choose to humble themselves under the might hand of God will be welcomed into His presence for all eternity. Those who refused to be humble will then be humbled, receiving judgment and condemnation for their arrogant rejection of God.

That is the choice we have, and eternity rides on this decision. We will choose to be humble before God, or we choose to be humbled by God.


Fight the lion, 1 Peter 5.1-11

TO GOD ALONE BE THE GLORY!