Choices
I’ve been thinking a lot about decisions lately, and how they influence us. There are so many different kinds of decisions, and they all affect us differently. Some decisions are life changing, and others only change the color of the shirt you’re wearing……
Everyone makes decisions, and even if it seems as if each individual decision isn’t important our decisions are what make us who we are. Every little decision that we make will ultimately define or destroy us. Who we are directly affects the choices that we have made. We make choices of whether to go to a Christian college or a secular one, we make decisions about who we’re going to befriend or reject, we even make decisions bout whether to buy a hamburger, or a chicken sandwich at McDonald’s. Some decisions seem so important and others so superficial……
Many times we know the right decision to make, yet we make the wrong decision. Or who or what is to say which decision is right and which is wrong? Our choices now, will affect the choices that we make later on as well as the convictions we will maintain. The choices we make at present will affect how we view choices in the future. If we make the wrong choices now, what does that do to our future? And if it does have an impact on our future then why do we make wrong decisions if we know the consequences for our actions?
It doesn’t make sense how one wrong decision can destroy a myriad of good decisions or vice versa. If God gave us the power of choice, they why don’t we use the power that He gave us to return the glory to Him? Why do we try to destroy ourselves through our decisions? How can we sit by and destroy ourselves through mistaken decisions, mismanaged opportunities, and wrong turns? If one good decisions can reverse a thousand bad ones, they why do we continue to live in our misconstrued web of choices? Can we reach the point where there is no way to escape the choices that we have so foolishly made? If so can that point be reached and how long or how far down do we have to sink to reach it?
As far as I can tell there is only one way out of this mess of choices that we have gotten ourselves into. If we know that wrong choices will destroy us and if we make choices in our own strength we will make the wrong decisions, which lead us to the conclusion that we will inevitably destroy ourselves without some outside intervention. God, who gave us our power of choice, is willing to save us from our foolish corruption of that power. So, in order to extricate ourselves from this messy web of choices guess what…… we have to make ONE right decision……
Deuteronomy 30:19-20, “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him. For the Lord if your life, and He will give you many years in the land He swore to give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
Everyone makes decisions, and even if it seems as if each individual decision isn’t important our decisions are what make us who we are. Every little decision that we make will ultimately define or destroy us. Who we are directly affects the choices that we have made. We make choices of whether to go to a Christian college or a secular one, we make decisions about who we’re going to befriend or reject, we even make decisions bout whether to buy a hamburger, or a chicken sandwich at McDonald’s. Some decisions seem so important and others so superficial……
Many times we know the right decision to make, yet we make the wrong decision. Or who or what is to say which decision is right and which is wrong? Our choices now, will affect the choices that we make later on as well as the convictions we will maintain. The choices we make at present will affect how we view choices in the future. If we make the wrong choices now, what does that do to our future? And if it does have an impact on our future then why do we make wrong decisions if we know the consequences for our actions?
It doesn’t make sense how one wrong decision can destroy a myriad of good decisions or vice versa. If God gave us the power of choice, they why don’t we use the power that He gave us to return the glory to Him? Why do we try to destroy ourselves through our decisions? How can we sit by and destroy ourselves through mistaken decisions, mismanaged opportunities, and wrong turns? If one good decisions can reverse a thousand bad ones, they why do we continue to live in our misconstrued web of choices? Can we reach the point where there is no way to escape the choices that we have so foolishly made? If so can that point be reached and how long or how far down do we have to sink to reach it?
As far as I can tell there is only one way out of this mess of choices that we have gotten ourselves into. If we know that wrong choices will destroy us and if we make choices in our own strength we will make the wrong decisions, which lead us to the conclusion that we will inevitably destroy ourselves without some outside intervention. God, who gave us our power of choice, is willing to save us from our foolish corruption of that power. So, in order to extricate ourselves from this messy web of choices guess what…… we have to make ONE right decision……
Deuteronomy 30:19-20, “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him. For the Lord if your life, and He will give you many years in the land He swore to give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
posted by JJewell06 at 9:35 AM
3 Comments:
hmmm. food for thought, eh?
this would be healthfood for thought. sometimes we dont like to think about/ partake in these realisations, but its good for you. alot of choices to be made these days too.
sigh, i couldn't be happy enough if i never had to think about my future EVER again. but unfortunately if i don't it'll soon be too late and i'll end up old, fat and working at Arbys' (ha,ha JK, pick MickyD's or something else)
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