Sep
21
Binary Choice
Filed Under Devotional
Digital signals are signals made up of ones and zeroes. For each bit of information, the item is either on or off. Combine several bits and you can describe a range of numbers, colors, volumes, etc. Digital signals produce better audio and video because the receiving device knows that the sender was sending only ones and zeroes. If the receiver gets something slightly less than a one, it knows that it was supposed to be a one and corrects it. If it gets something slightly more than a zero, it knows that it was supposed to be a zero and corrects it. So, information lost in transmission can actually be restored which, therefore, gives the receiver a clearer signal.
Our decision about Christ is like one of those bits. It is binary. It is either yes or no. You cannot answer “maybe” or “I haven’t decided, yet” or “I choose not to choose”. Any attempt to split the difference will be corrected. Except, in this case, being close to saying yes does not count. Everything that is somewhere in between is treated as a no.
The pastor teaching yesterday asked a couple of simple questions. Where will your saved friends be a thousand years from now? Where will your lost friends be a thousand years from now? The saved will be with Jesus. The lost will not. There is no middle ground. There is no acceptable gray area.
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.” Luke 19:10
The logic is inescapable. Either you are saved by Jesus or you are still lost.
Don’t let anyone believe they can survive on a halfway answer. Anything other than yes is a no.