The Ultimate Life Choice

There are many who have decided to make lifestyle changes for whatever benefits or goals they are trying to achieve. Though these lifestyle changes may involve a bit of mindfulness, they mostly focus on the physical. Eating right, exercising, social connections, better sleep habits etc. 

These are all very good habits to form. When a person decides to make the right choices and commit to making changes that will be beneficial to them physically, as a believer, one cannot help but wonder why the same approach is not taken concerning their souls. That more than anything else should not be neglected. 

This lack of attention to a spiritual lifestyle change may be because the unsaved is not thinking about what happens after death.  After our temporary tent, our bodies, no longer exist.  What happens when we are no longer in this tent.

The word of God in Revelation 21:8 speaks about the second death. The lake of fire and brimstone which burns non stop. The first death is of the flesh and the second has to do with our soul.  If we do not make the right choice or spiritual lifestyle changes, just as we do for our physical bodies to live a healthier, balanced lifestyle, then we can be sure to suffer the consequences of neglecting the latter. 

God loves us and has demonstrated this by sending His Son to die for us so that we may live eternally with Him as the scripture says in John 3:16. By accepting His free gift of salvation we are guaranteed a life with Him where we will escape this everlasting punishment of sin. Just as living with Him will be for eternity, so also the punishment of living without Him in sin is for eternity. 

In light of all this, should we not give careful thought to the lifestyle  choices that we make now and the consequences that we will face if we do not make the choice that will lead to eternal life? These consequences are inescapable. God has already prepared a way and all one has to do after hearing the gospel, believing and accepting it, is to invite Jesus into their lives acknowledging Him as their Lord and Savior. The Lord gives His Holy Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing our inheritance. See Ephesians 1:13-14

Don't you want to add this lifestyle change as it is the most   significant of all?

Mark 8:36 NKJV

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? 

I Timothy 4:8 

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.