To the editor:

I get to choose whom I will love and serve.

Free will is both a good thing and can be a very evil thing. We can choose to love one another or be self-centered and love and worship wealth, power, celebrities and an endless list of other things and gods; from the sun to drugs and any other Satanic addictions.

We can choose to love and surrender our free will to God the father and his only begotten son, Jesus, by him our Lord and Savior; or love and surrender our life and will to some Satanic cult leader in politics, religion or some other weird dead god or gods.

Jesus, just before going to the cross to die for all of our sins of all mankind, was in agony as He prayed, “Father, if it is [your will,] take this cup away from me; [never the less not my will,] but yours, be done.” His agony was not for all the suffering his body and “soul” – mind would be going through, but was the agony his spirit was to suffer with all of the sin of every person that ever lived on this planet placed on it. He whom never ever sinned was taking all of our sins so we can have fellowship with the Father and inherit eternal life.

Those words spoken by Jesus “not My will but Yours, be done” is from the Bible, Luke 22:40., and is the only place in the Bible where those words were spoken. Why is that so important? Because it shows me that after I surrendered my life to Jesus Christ and was born again 52 years ago. Now, “I have been crucified with Christ: it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me: and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”

If I live, I live and serve God. When I die, I will be with Him. Wow. Like Jesus, when I die, I was to call out, as He did in Luke 23:46, “Father, into your hands, I commit my spirit.”