An Offer You Can't Refuse

We have one BIG choice to make in our lives...to Prosper or Die

It sounds scary...and is. No matter who we are, where we are, who our parents are, how gifted we are, how smart we are, our how well off we are…we must make a choice. We have to choose to follow God or to snub our nose at Him and go our own way. It’s the BIG decision of our lives. 

So much of the time we treat God as an annoying parent trying to ruin our good times and make life miserable. The truth is he’s trying to save our lives and lead us into a prosperous, happy fulfilling life! The reality is that He knows we were born spiritually dead and must be born spiritually if we are to have eternal life. 

Whether we admit it or not, without Him we are doomed
That’s why he sent His Son…to be the substitute for our sin and give us the chance for a fresh start with a new, permanent spiritual life! God takes this dead serious! We need to do the same.

So we have choices. This is highlighted by who we associate with, who we listen to and who we choose as friends. 

The options- the Righteous and the Wicked, are contrasted in Psalms 1:

1 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night. 

You may say, why is that? They are nice, they are “good guys,” they're fun to be around, so what’s the problem? Psalms 5:9 tells us why…

There is nothing reliable in what they say;
Their inward part is destruction itself.
Their throat is an open grave;
They flatter with their tongue.

They appear as nice, fun people but it’s all a delusion. They are headed to disaster. They have no foundation..it’s all false. So what are the results from focusing on the Lord and His words, of choosing to put your focus on the Lord? Let’s go back to Psalms 1.

3 He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season
And its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers.

It’s like investing in the stock market. How are you going to invest? Wisely, on solid, well run and profitable companies or foolishly on flashy fly-by-night operations? Except this is much more serious, you aren’t investing money, you are investing your life.

4 The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the wicked will perish.

Wise or foolish, righteous or wicked…you have your free will, no one is forcing you…so which do you choose?

For me it's an offer I can't refuse...God and Life or wickedness and death? I choose God!

Winner's Book Club Selection of the Week: Secretariat

WINNERS CREDENTIALS

In 1973, Secretariat , the greatest champion in horse-racing history, won the Triple Crown. The only horse to ever grace the covers of Time, Newsweek, and Sports Illustrated in the same week, he also still holds the record for the fastest times in both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. He was also the only non-human chosen as one of ESPN's "50 Greatest Athletes of the Century." The tale of "Big Red" is an enduring and inspiring classic, more than thirty years after its initial publication.

Amazon Editorial Review

Secretariat captured the public's attention from his remarkable season in 1973 to his 1989 death. Sports Illustrated writer Nack here updates his 1975 portrait of the Triple Crown-winning champion, whose records set at the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes have yet to be broken. This edition includes a new preface, Secretariat's breeding history and race chart, and an account of his death. >>read more

"Secretariat is an elegantly crafted, exhilarating tale of speed and power, grace and greatness, told with such immediacy that the reader is lost in the rush of horses and the clatter and ring of the grandstand." —Laura Hillenbrand, author of "Seabiscuit" 

Customer Review

One of the All-Time Best Racing Books Susan Nunes (Medford, OR United States) 

This book was originally published in 1975 as BIG RED OF MEADOW STABLE. I read the book when it first came out, and I thought it was one of the greatest books ever written on thoroughbred racing. I finally bought a copy of my own in 1989, just a couple of months before my visit to see the great horse in Kentucky.

Perhaps because I saw Secretariat just weeks before he was put down, this book still brings the tears to my eyes when I read it. It takes a truly outstanding writer to write about such a magnificent subject, and Nack fills the bill beautifully. He traces Secretariat's lineage and of the history of Claiborne Farm in Kentucky, long the leading breeder of thoroughbred race horses. He writes in depth about Secretariat's races leading up to the legendary Triple Crown triumph of 1973. He writes about observers such as Charles Hatton, who spotted Secretariat's greatness immediately and who called Secretariat the greatest horse he had ever seen. >>read more