We Decide Our Eternal Destiny

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

We Decide Our Eternal Destiny

Today's Text: Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase. Daniel 4:37

The Message:      The strength of nations and of individuals is not found in the opportunities and facilities that appear to make them invincible; it is not found in their boasted greatness. That alone which can make them great and strong is the power and purpose of God. They themselves, by their attitude toward His purpose, decide their own destiny. Human histories relate people's achievements, their victories in battle, their success in climbing to worldly greatness. God's history describes men and women as heaven views them....      The prophet Daniel described the kingdoms that would rise and fall. Interpreting to the king of Babylon the dream of the great image, he declared to Nebuchadnezzar that his kingdom would be superseded. His greatness and power in God's world would have its day, and a second kingdom would arise that also would have its period of test and trial as to whether the people would exalt the one Ruler, the only true God. Not doing this, they and their glory would fade away, and a third kingdom would occupy their place. Proved by obedience or disobedience, this also would pass away, and a fourth, strong as iron, was to subdue the nations of the world. This Word, opened by the infinite God to finite human beings, recorded on the prophetic page, and traced on the pages of history, declares that God is the ruling power....      The voice of God, heard in past ages, is sounding down along the line from century to century, through generations that have come on the stage of action and passed away.... History and prophecy testify that the God of the whole earth revealeth secrets through His chosen light bearers to the world.... Nebuchadnezzar, through his terrible humiliation in the loss of his reason, was brought to see his own weakness, and to acknowledge the supremacy of the living God....      To every person, God has assigned a place in His great plan. By truth or falsehood, by folly or wisdom, each is fulfilling a purpose, bringing about certain results. And each, according as he or she chooses obedience or disobedience, is deciding his or her own eternal destiny. To everyone is given freedom to act, and upon everyone rests the responsibility of their own actions....      We are not to say God was, but God is.... Though kings shall be cast down, and nations removed, the souls that through faith link themselves with God's purposes shall abide forever.-Manuscript 36, 1896.

Commentary: My friend, each of us has a destiny to fulfill but that destiny is ultimately decided by us.  The world that we live in, the circumstances of our lives, and the influences that are about us all have their place, but ultimately we decide the final destination of our lives.  It is by our choices that determines whether we will live or die.  The seemingly small choices that we make today do not seem to have much of an impact on our destiny, but life is made up of small decisions, one leading to another and yet another until the course of our lives is set. There are only two forces at work within the universe, they are good and evil, moral and immoral, righteous and unrighteous.  By our choices we are either choosing the side of God or the side of Satan.  In the last days each will be brought to the point of decision as to who we are worshiping.  When the mark of the beast is impressed upon the world, the small decisions that we have made will have a great influence upon the final decision that we make at that time.  If we have been compromising with sin to please the world, we will succumb to the pressure that will bear upon the world in the last days.  But if we have chosen day by day to remain true to God, He will enable us to stand true for Him during that time. The final test that is to be brought upon the world will reveal who we truly worship.  There are many today that believe that they are worshiping God, but in reality are worshiping Satan.  The trinity has the outward appearance of God, but is not in accordance to how He reveals Himself in the Scriptures.  The trinity teaches that God is a triune god made up of three individual beings, each of which is god unto themselves, while the Scriptures clearly shows that there is only One true God who has a Son.  Jesus praying to His Father said "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." (John 17:3). Satan has artfully supplanted the One true God of the Bible with the triune god of his own devising.  The Seventh-day Adventist church, which was formed from the great disappointment of 1844, had fully come out of Babylon and God had restored His great truths that had once been given to the apostles to His people.  Our early church pioneers did not believe in the trinity but saw it for what it was, a deception of Satan.  But as each went to their graves, evil men crept in unawares.  "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ." (Jude 3, 4). The trinity teaches that God the Son has always existed and as such is not really a son, but is only a metaphor, only a role that one of the god beings has assumed, and as such denies the the Father and the Son.  This is the spirit of antichrist for it says in 1 John 2:22, 23 "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.  Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also." Who you choose to worship today will determine the final choice that you will make in the last days.  If you are worshiping God under the false influence of the trinity, you are not receiving the righteousness of Christ, but the righteousness of another, for it teaches that the Holy Spirit is not the Spirit of Christ but the spirit of another being called God the Holy Spirit.  The word of God says that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God and is that same Spirit that lives within His Son Jesus Christ, for their is only one Spirit.  "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." (Ephesians 4:4-6). My friend, we each choose our own destinies by who we worship.  My prayer for you today is that you will turn away from the false god of the trinity and choose to worship the One true God through His Son Jesus Christ today. God bless,

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