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I<\/b>n February I wrote about the junctions in life\u2019s road. Life is full of those decision times when we must choose to go one way or the other. We have the Holy Spirit and the Word of God to guide us, but many times we decide to go a way that seems best to us and we make an unwise choice. Those choices may last a short time or they may affect the rest of our lives. How do we handle these unwise choices?<\/p>\n

It is never too late to do right. We all start life on the wrong road. \u201cAll we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one, to his own way\u201d (Isa 53:6). As soon as we realized the broad road leads to destruction and that God has provided the right, howbeit narrow road, we turned to Him from idols to serve the Lord Jesus Christ. Conviction, repentance, and trust in Christ moved us from the wrong to the right path. That is basically the formula that we use in all the lesser changes in life. We must realize from God\u2019s Word that we made a mistake, let godly sorrow work repentance, then go in the right direction from that point.<\/p>\n

The junction in the road where we made the poor choice is long behind us now and we can\u2019t go back to that time. We have to look ahead to that opportunity God gives to turn in the better direction. We ought to say, \u201cIf the Lord wills we shall live and do this or that. . . Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin\u201d (Jas 4:15, 17). There is another junction in the road up ahead and this time we will trust the Lord\u2019s direction. \u201cIn all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths\u201d (Prov 3:6).<\/p>\n

1) Is it a bad moral choice you made or are making? Do you know that such a thing is sin before God? These wrong choices can be corrected immediately. \u201cGodly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, not to be regretted\u201d (2 Cor 7:10). \u201cIf we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness\u201d (1 Jn 1:9). Your bad choice may be an offense to a brother or sister in Christ. This may not seem so burdensome as the moral sin, but it is a sin nonetheless. \u201cLeave your gift before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother\u201d (Matt 5:24). These wrong choices, whether morally corrupt or simply offensive, can and ought to be remedied quickly. It is never too late to do right.<\/p>\n

2) Some decisions have longer effects and cannot always be totally reconciled, at least not quickly. A choice of occupation may have come to a dead end or placed you in a compromising position. It may take time to prepare yourself for another profession. Perhaps you realize that you were not the best parent to your young children and they are older now and not prepared as they should be for life. You can still be a good parent. Read Proverbs often and ask the Lord to give you godly wisdom for each situation.<\/p>\n

3) Some decisions we live with all our lives but make the best of them by God\u2019s grace. A child out of wedlock, finding yourself married to a person you thought was a believer but is not, or that marriage ending in divorce. Sometimes the church you have known all your life or for many years is no longer following God\u2019s Word and you are forced to make a change you did not want to have to make. Sometimes it will be God\u2019s will to remain in a difficult situation such as staying with a lost spouse if that person is pleased to dwell with you (1 Cor 7:13). You can still have a godly effect on your adult child though he has not yet surrendered to God. You are still the parent God has given him. Above all, \u201cHumble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you\u201d (1 Pet 5:6-7).<\/p>\n

\u201cNo human hand has ever drawn an absolutely straight line.\u00a0 That is the ideal of the mathematician, but all ours are crooked.\u00a0 But we may indefinitely diminish the magnitude of the curves.\u201d\u00a0 Alexander Maclaren, The Acts<\/i>, 159.<\/p>\n

Further Thoughts on the Wrong Road from the Life of John Mark<\/b><\/h4>\n

John Mark made a bad decision early in his ministry with Paul and Barnabas. \u201cNow when Paul and his party set sail from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia; and John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem\u201d (Acts 13:13), \u201creturned\u201d is from the ordinary word meaning to leave. John Mark was a Judean and Jerusalem was his home. Compared to the rural countryside of Pamphylia, John was a city boy. Even in the company of uncle Barnabas and the apostle Paul, he felt very uncomfortable when they landed on the Galatian continent. The very place is called Attalia in Acts 14:25. Today it is called Antalya, a very pretty vacation spot. It was not so pretty to John Mark.<\/p>\n

John (sometimes called John, sometimes Mark, or \u201cJohn called Mark\u201d in 15:37) had a privileged youth to this point. He was probably the young man who followed Jesus and the disciples to the garden of Gethsemane and then fled from the soldiers (recorded only in Mark 14:51) and it is also possible that the last supper was eaten in his parents\u2019 house. His later stature as a Bible writer and traveler testifies to his familiarity to all the believers.<\/p>\n

There have been various views as to why John returned home rather than go on with Paul and Barnabas. Fear, of course, would be one of them. This area, after all, is where Paul will be stoned and left for dead. Perhaps he was homesick on this first missionary journey away from home. We\u2019ve all felt that during our first year at college or when we moved away from home. Many feel John could have been jealous for uncle Barnabas (the word is \u201ccousin\u201d or \u201ckin\u201d) because during this trip Barnabas, who is always named first to this point, now takes a back seat to Paul. It is Barnabas who later defends Mark to Paul. Regardless (and Luke sees no reason to explain it further), John Mark made a decision that will impact his life and ministry for a great while to come. He probably had many sleepless nights thinking over his decision.<\/p>\n

The issue is taken up in Acts15:36-41 when Barnabas wants to take John Mark with them on a second journey but Paul will have none of it. Barnabas was \u201cdetermined\u201d (from bouleu<\/i>\u014d<\/i>, to be resolute) to take John but Paul did not think it was good, (he insisted m<\/i>\u0113<\/i> axio<\/i>\u014d<\/i>, it was unfit) and that John must not go because he \u201cdeparted\u201d (here the word is from apostasia<\/i>) and basically quit. Now we see that John Mark\u2019s bad decision is causing division among other brethren. This is always the case that our unwise decisions affect many others for a good while to come. Aren\u2019t we glad that all of our decisions aren\u2019t written in the Bible as Mark\u2019s was for all to see! Yet they are known and accounted for by God.<\/p>\n

Luke records that the \u201ccontention became so sharp that they [Paul and Barnabas] parted from one another.\u201d This division will last for the rest of their lives in a physical way, though Paul and Barnabas, as adults should, will patch things up spiritually between themselves. Paul will mention Barnabas positively five times in his epistles, three time in Galatians. This present contention will also affect Silas and Judas, Timothy, Luke, and Titus, as well as the churches where he could have ministered. It is amazing how many others we affect in our lives by the decisions we make, whether good or bad or just unwise.<\/p>\n

The good news is that the life and ministry of John Mark was far from over. Though Paul \u201cchose\u201d Silas (who will appear only in the second journey of Paul), Barnabas \u201ctook\u201d Mark and returned to Cyprus, his home territory (Acts 15:39; 4:36). Tradition has it that Mark will later travel with Peter (1 Peter 5:13) but most of all that God will use Mark to write the second gospel. This is a testimony that it is never too late to do right. \u201cThe LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,\u00a0keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin (Exod 34:7).<\/p>\n

On another side, it is also disputed whether Barnabas responded properly toward Mark or whether Paul did. Barnabas seems more loving and forgiving and that is natural for those with closer family ties. On the other hand, Paul seems to be more practical and more consistent with his principles. Sometimes it takes both kinds of friends to set us on the right path again. Sometimes we ourselves can be too soft on those who need correction, and at other times we can be too severe and unforgiving toward those who have hurt us. As we have seen, in the end God will bring us all together if we have a heart for His heart. In Col 4:10, John Mark is with Paul during his first Roman imprisonment. Later, in 2 Tim 4:11 in the Mamertine prison, Paul asks Timothy to \u201cGet Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for ministry.\u201d How that must have stirred Mark\u2019s heart. Let us do that quickly with our wounded and discouraged brethren, God has done it long before.<\/p>\n

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