A Free Will Death Dive

As I mentioned in my last blog post, I have the most precious little nephew in the NICU getting stronger everyday! He is doing so well. He kicked his jaundice, and is making more progress daily. Yet the one thing keeping him in the hospital are his death dives. His daddy (my brother in law) has coined these episodes that name! Most preemies have this problem, they forget to breathe! They just dont know how yet. Sounds silly, but they are supposed to be in the womb with mama doing all the breathing for them. Although mighty Max is getting few of these death dives, and learning how to recover on his own, the nurse usually has to rub him and wake him up a bit to get him to start breathing again!

Little Maximus does not intentionally doing this, but we as adults make "free will death dives" all the time! I feel like there are so many people around me, whom I dearly love, that are choosing death. Not literally (although some of their actions are risky) they are choosing the path that may stop them from living in what God wants. We choose to stop breathing. We choose to use drugs, cheat on our spouse, give up on our marriage, neglect our kids, mistreat our friends, develop eating disorders, or walk away from God. Unlike baby Max, we decide that this way is easier, less hurtful, more convenient. Life isn't easy friends. Jesus never said it would be. But God has given us free will to choose Life. He even gave us free will to choose Him....or not. That's how much He loves us!

This is my cry people, don't choose death. Stay and fight. Even if little Max is unable to control his death dives, he sure is fighting for life. But remember, no matter how far we run, Gods love is still there. He never leaves us or forsakes us. Nothing we choose will ever keep Him from loving us.

"Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." -Romans 8:28