It's Decision Time!

Sometimes there’s a moment of decision — a clear time when we are asked to choose between one thing or another.  

This happened for the people of Israel.  Remember the story?  Moses went up to the mountain to talk with God and Aaron got the people together and they came up with idea of making a golden calf to worship.  Moses comes down the mountain and gave Aaron a little “talking to.”  

He realized something and then asked a question:  

And  when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, to the derision of their enemies), 26then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Who is on the LORD’s side? 

Regardless of what kind of idols we have unconsciously built there is always that moment of decision.  It’s not just one decision that we make at a point in time that sticks forever — it’s a consistent decision every time something new comes up.  Every time we miss the mark or step away … if we listen closely enough — we can hear the Holy Spirit whispering, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”

Today and every day I want to raise my hand to that question — whatever the cost, whatever the future holds …. I want to recognize what God is asking me to walk away from in order to stand on the Lord’s side.

I was a pretty intense Christian teenager — a Jesus Freak — so to speak…. So I was very motivated by this hymn.  I can still feel my heart swell as I remember how I felt when I sang:

By Thy call of mercy, by Thy grace divine,
We are on the Lord’s side—Savior, we are Thine!