“If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.”

“If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.”

“If [we] have no chosen the kingdom of God [first], it will make in the end no difference what [we] have chosen instead.”

“If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will make little difference what you have chosen instead.”

“Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you have not chosen me.” We are not our own; we have been bought with a price. We have no rights, only responsibilities. Following Christ is not our initiative, merely our response, in obedience. Nothing works better to debunk the pretensions of choice than a conviction of calling. Once we have been called, we literally “have no choice.”

“You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.”