954) One of the many things that’s so wonderful about God’s creation of people is that he allowed us to make choices. After all, to deny this to his creation, he would have made complicated robots who only did what he programed them to do. This would leave no room for devotion, loyalty, and love.
The drawback of allowing us the freedom of choice is that we can choose to not follow God.
How would parents feel if they’ve raised their children in the ways of God, but then the child grows up and rejects everything they have been taught to value?
Stephen, the first Christian martyr, understood the responsibilities that go along with choice. He spends much time in the 7th chapter of Acts, listing out the responsibilities God gave his ancestors and the choices those people made. Stephen pointed out that all bore the repercussions of their choices and it is this very thing that caused the men in this chapter to put him to death.
We all desire to make our own choices, but it’s good to be reminded of the fact that we will reap the consequences, good and bad, of them.
