When I was in high school we used to drive up to Port Angelos, Washington, and fish, it is at the northern tip of the Olympic Peninsula. It would take my friends and me 4 or 5 hours driving to get there. Logging companies would dump banded truckloads of logs in the ocean, and when they had acres of them they would connect all the log rafts with chains and tow them across the ocean to Japan or China. We would walk out on the logs, jumping from log raft to log raft until we got out to the end which would often be 300 or 400 yards from where they were connected to the dock where we started at. When we got out to the end we would fish for sea bass, ling cod, and other species of bottom fish. We would put the fish in a gunny bag and head back to our rig when the bag was full. Getting from log raft to lag raft was tricky, especially when the tide was going out and pulling the logs apart. We often fell in, and the important thing was not to let loose of the bag of fish or your fishing rod or gear when you went in. The problem that came up often was when you stepped across to another log and it started moving away from the one you were on. Decisiveness was the key, you had to decide whether you were going to stay where you were or jump and if you waited to long to decide your legs would be split apart so much you couldn’t do either so you went into the drink.

I see a lot of people doing that in their faith. They have one foot in the church with Jesus as Lord of their life and one foot in the world. They try to live in both arenas and they can’t, and pretty soon they fall. I know without a doubt that there is a God, He put that inside of me, He put it inside of every person. I am not a dummy, I know how to think and reason, and I know that if there is a God there is a purpose and reason for everything, and that everything points to a very powerful God and a very wise God. Of all the religions in the world the only one that makes sense is the God of the Bible and Christianity.

Therefore the only thing that makes sense is to be 100% committed to serving and living for Jesus Christ. As I have done that and have grown in my relationship with the God of the Bible, my faith and confidence that God is very real, and has a very real plan for my life, has grown stronger and stronger. I have jumped from the world to Jesus as Lord of my life and every day it becomes more real to me. I am going to live forever someplace, and because I am following Jesus as Lord I will live with Him.

There are a lot of people who are being fools, giving lip service to God but living in the world. If Jesus is real, if He is who He says He is, there is only one wise choice, go with Jesus 100%, and don’t wait until it is too late, it is already later than you think it is.