The Best Part by Russ Lawson
What is the best part? I was listening to a coffee commercial and the jingle said, "The best part of waking up is ?" Can you finish the jingle? Granted the "best part" has to be qualified in some way, such as, "the best part of waking up" or "the best part of the day." But if you had to finish the sentence, "The best part," how would you end it? Are some things better than others Yes, of course they are. We often make choices based upon what is better in our minds. The classic example of this is Joshua's challenge to the people of Israel in Joshua 24:15 where he says: "But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." We do make choices.
On the flip side of that thought, we often make the statement of consolation, "It could have been worse, you could have?" In other words, some choices, without a doubt, are better than others. Christ uses this reasoning in the Sermon of the Mount in Matthew 5:29 where he says: "So if your eye, even your good eye, causes you to lust, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell."(NLT) I don't believe he is giving us advice to do ourselves physical harm, but rather is making the point that we have the ability to choose and need to choose wisely.
Life is a matter of making one choice after another isn't it, from the time we wake in the morning to the time we go to sleep at night we make decisions or choices. If you had to choose what would be your best part? According to the Jingle I mentioned earlier, "The best part of waking up is Folgers (coffee) in your cup." That may be very good, but I agree with Joshua about what is better, serving the Lord!
as seen in Russ Lawson's "Messages From the Heart" at http://www.mfth.net
From firstIMPRESSIONS Vol. 10.45
