A coin is a piece of hard material used primarily as a means of exchange or legal tender. There are also two sides to every coin; these two sides are known as head and tail. Any mutilation on either side of the coin renders the coin invalid and as such not fit any longer to serve as a means of exchange or legal tender. Coins have varied value and the values of most coins in use today are usually inscribed on any of the sides of the coin. So every coin has value and two sides to it.
As every coin has two sides, so life has two sides as well. Life at any point in time will present choices and the choice we make defines the value we have. This is a slight variation to the analogue of the value of the coin; the value is fixed and whatever side does not have effect on the value of the coin.
We make the most of life when we make the most of the opportunity that life present to us at any point in time. People have equal opportunities but varied result because of the decision they made when life presented an opportunity to them. So life is the choice we make.
Two persons by the side of Jesus were given equal opportunity but they made opposing choices and ended in opposite end; one ended in paradise by his choice and the other ended in hell by his choice as well.
39 Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, “If You are the Christ,[j] save Yourself and us.”
40 But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong.” 42 Then he said to Jesus, “Lord,[k] remember me when You come into Your kingdom.”
43 And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” LUKE 23:39-43
One chose blasphemy and ended in hell but the other chose honor and acknowledgement that Jesus is the Lord and gained himself a place in paradise. Till today there are still these two sides – blasphemy and acknowledgement of the Lordship of Christ.
The easiest way to blasphemy is by talking with authority what you do not have good information about. It is a show of ignorance and lack of good understanding. Wisdom is saying what you know and refraining from what you are not too sure about; the wise will always make the best of choices.
