Alternate Ends, One Beginning

On my way back home from work one day I was thinking about how when we choose to follow Christ, we have to make a decision. We are inundated with messages from the media, the government, and all kinds of people telling us what to believe, what to do, and how to react. Do we ever stop to think why we do something? Why we choose to go down one path and not another? Or are our actions just non-responsive reactions to stimuli that we see and hear. When talking about eternity, this kind of response is fatal. If we passively brush off the decision to choose Jesus or not, we will end up spending eternity in hell separated from God. However, Jesus died to save us from this end. It is our choice to choose him and his salvation that he offers.

How are we to think about and actually choose this answer if we believe everything that we see and hear? The media says that there are many ways to heaven and that all one has to do is be good. Yet we can see from watching even ten minutes of the news that there are a lot of people doing evil things out there. There is a potential for good and evil in everyone. The crucial decision is which path they choose to follow--the good or the evil. Will they follow Jesus' way or the way of the world?

So in thinking about all of this I composed this poem in my 30 minute drive home. I entitled it "Alternate Ends, One Beginning" in hopes to communicate the two choices that one has between the good or evil path. We all begin the same with the same options yet we can end up in drastically different places depending on what path we follow.

I hope that you will choose to follow Jesus' path.

Alternate Ends, One Beginning
One choice,
One direction
Can bend our paths
Forever apart.
One call,
One rejection,
Can shatter our hearts
Fully broken.
One chance,
One confession,
Can unite our souls
Together mended.
One move,
One decision,
Can join our spirits
Divinely intended.

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