There are times when God sends thunder to stir us.  There are times when God sends His blessings to lure us.  But then there are times when God sends nothing but silence as He honors us with the freedom to choose where we spend eternity. And what an honor it is!  In so many areas of life we have no choice.  Think about it.  You didn’t choose your gender. You didn’t choose your siblings.  You didn’t choose your race or the place of your birth. Sometimes our lack of choices angers us.  “It’s not fair,” we say.  It’s not fair that I was born in poverty or that I sing so poorly or that I run so slowly.  But the scales of life were forever tipped on the side of fairness when God planted a tree in the Garden of Eden.  All complaints were silenced when Adam and his decedents were given free will, the freedom to make whatever eternal choice we desire.  Any injustice in this life is offset by the honor of choosing our destiny in the next. Wouldn’t you agree?  Would you have it otherwise?  Would you have preferred the opposite?  You chose everything in this life, and He chooses where you spend the next?  You choose the size of your nose, the color of your hair, and your DNA structure, and He chooses where you spend eternity?  Is that what you would prefer? It would have been nice if God had let us order life like we order a meal: I’ll take good health and a high IQ.  I’ll pass on the music skills, but give me a fast metabolism …. Would’ve been nice.  But it didn’t happen.  When it came to your life on earth, you weren’t 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’t you agree? Have we been given any greater privilege than that of choice? Not only does this privilege offset any injustice, the gift of free will can offset any mistakes. You’ve made some bad choices in life, haven’t you?  You’ve chosen the wrong friends, maybe the wrong career, even the wrong actions and relationships.  You look back over your life and say, “If only …. if only I could make up those bad choices.”  You can.  One good choice for eternity offsets a thousand bad ones on earth. God allows you the choice. The choice is yours. He Will Let You Choose.  Thoughts from reading “I Will Let You Choose” by Max Lucado.