Choices
- AfraOpoku
- June 21, 2026
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What if your life was perfect?
I know what you’re thinking…but stay with me.
Every problem – gone.
Every worry; non-existent.
All provision -sorted out.
All needs -available
All wants – sorted
Would you still trust in God?
Don’t be too quick to answer that.
If you had no need of God, would you want Him?
It’s easy to give the politically correct answer.
Before you rush to say of course , consider this.
It’s happened before.
It doesn’t look like it now but there was a time when life was perfect.
A time that predates sin.
A time before the knowledge of good and evil.
Two people had the perfection we crave today.1
Adam and Eve got to live in a place where all their needs were provided for and they still failed the trust test.
In theory, It would have been easy for Adam and Eve to obey. They were surrounded by perfectly curated surroundings.
They had all the positives with no negatives: No mortgages, no emergency hospital visits, no in-law drama, no debts and still they chose to not trust God.
Most of us think an easy life makes for better choices but this couple set the precedent against that theory.
It’s easy to believe that if we were in the shoes of Adam and Eve we would have done things differently.
I highly doubt that.
Comfort doesn’t always equal the right choice, the same way discomfort doesn’t always equal the wrong choice
Another man in another time had very unpleasant circumstances and still chose right.
We get so familiar with Jesus it’s easy to lose sight of who He really is.
God the Son took a major downgrade when He stepped onto the threshold of our planet and confined himself to a human body.
The majestic one who had everything at His beck and call chose to be born in a lower class family, grow up in the dust of a carpenters workshop and live among people who would hate him and eventually put him to death.
Like Eve, He was confronted by the devil and like Eve, he was offered a way that seemed attractive but went against God’s instruction.2
Think about it.
He came to save the world.
The devil offered that world to him in exchange for his adulation.2
That would have meant no cross. No pain. No death.
Eve got the offer when she was full and took it.
Jesus got the offer while starving and declined it.3
I don’t know about you, but when I’m hungry I’m not in the best of moods and I’m more likely to take up any offer that brings me immediate relief.
Jesus passed up the offer of power because it wasn’t His Father’s path.
Given the options He chose the difficult path.
I know what you’re thinking.
That was Jesus. How can we ever compare?
We have His Spirit.4
The same Spirit that kept him on the straight and narrow. The same spirit that raised him from the dead quickens our mortal bodies and helps us do the right thing amidst great difficulty.5
Christ sent his Holy Spirit to help us.
Knowing we would live in hostile territory, He left us strength beyond our own in the Helper.6
You’re not going to trust the Lord because your surroundings are perfect or because you’re strong enough.
You’re going to trust the Lord because He gives you His Spirit who helps you stay on the right road.
At the end of this race, we will get a better world than Eden.
At the end of this time, we will get the perfection that our hearts long for.
In the meantime you’re not alone.4
Remember all of heaven is behind you even when the road is hard.
You will make the right choice.
- Gen 2 v 8-9
- Luke 4 v 5-8
- Luke 4 v 1-2
- John 14 v 16-18
- Rom 8 v 11
- Rom 8 v 26