It's My Right!

But is it?

 

As far as I know, the Bible does not grant us rights. 

 

I’ve read through the Bible, and I haven’t discovered anything that says or even implies, “It’s your right.” or tells me, “It’s my right.”

 

What the Bible does give us are choices, but to our detriment we like to interchange the meanings of choice and right… but these two words in fact, are not synonymous in meaning.

 

God has, in no uncertain terms or wording, defined for us right and wrong, good and evil, life and death… and these inescapable dichotomies are what bring us back to having a choice, and not rights. We are all given the freedom to choose, and this unconditional freedom might well seem to be the closest thing to having a God-given right… but this always comes back to us to having to make choices.

 

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)

 

We don’t have to read very far into the Bible before confronting having to make a choice. The first verse in the Bible compels us to make a choice between believe or disbelieve.

Maybe it’s nice to want a Maybe key on a keyboard, but in the Bible, God’s vocabulary does not have the word maybe. Likewise in the Bible, Jesus’s vocabulary does not have the word maybe. Maybe is not a viable option to carry through life.

“And the Lord God commanded the man, saying,” You may eat freely of every tree in the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.” (Genesis 2:16-17)

 

Today in Canada, our government and people are consumed with, “The right to die.” meaning medically assisted suicide. Of course assisting another in suicide is nothing more than another way to say committing murder.

 

But death is not a right, it is an unavoidable reminder of God’s truth about death and then judgement upon every single one of us for our sin, because from conception (not birth) we have all been sentenced to eventual and inescapable death. This is harsh, but this is true.

 

Choosing to end life by suicide, or whitewashing the words suicide and murder as MAID (Medical Assistance In Dying), is not a right… it is a choice. Anyone who chooses to end their life by suicide has been given free will of choice from God to do so… but would you want to pass from life to death by committing one final sin?

 

God said, “You shall not kill.” (Exodus 20:13)

 

And God did not exclude suicide.

 

“But it’s my body and I have the right to…”

 

No, it’s not my body… and no, yours is not your body either. We may think and believe our body is ours because our life and soul occupy it, but our body is not ours. The unavoidable absolute truth and proof is that we die and leave our body… and there is nothing anyone can do to avoid this eventual eviction. It is reality.

 

When we die, and believe me all of us living now shall die, we all leave our body behind. We have NO choice in this. Everything God has given us here in this life is temporary… but Jesus has promised us life in and through him if we choose to believe in him on his terms alone.

 

Everything in this world that has anything to do with evil and has been tainted by evil ends with destruction and then death, which means everything is already condemned.

 

Psalm 90 is the only Psalm that is accredited as, “A prayer of Moses to God.”

 

“For we are consumed by your anger, by your wrath we are overwhelmed. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance. For all our days pass away under your wrath, our years come to an end like a sigh.” (Psalm 90: 7-9)

 

Paul tells us this same message, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men, who by their (our) wickedness suppress the truth.” (Romans 1:18)

 

We are like this jailer confronting his hopeless situation and was about to kill himself, and trembling with fear, he asked Paul and Silas, “Men, what must I do to be saved?”

 

“And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” 

(Acts 16:30-31)

 

“And they (Paul and Silas) spoke the word of the Lord to him (the jailer) and all that were in his household. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their wounds, and he was baptized at once, with all his family. Then he brought them up into his house, and set food before them; and he rejoiced with all his household that he had believed in God.” (Acts 16:32-34)

 

We shall also reach the end of our life like one or the other of those two men who were crucified beside Jesus... about to die and face divine judgement. Not one of us is different or an exception.

 

What two men?

 

Let’s take a look… “One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!“ But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” (Luke 23:39-43)

 

What words will each one of us eventually hear from Jesus?

 

Moses, said to Israel, “I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life that you and your descendants may live.” (Deuteronomy 30:19)

 

Since the beginning, life has always been about making unavoidable and inescapable choices. 

 

Choosing not to make a choice is a choice, but in the end, this route of indecision through life is a fake one, and leads to inescapable destruction.

 

 

The Oddblock Station Agent

101 November 17 2025