Choices

   We are inundated with choices.  We make decisions about many things concerning many different situations each day of our life.  We have the tremendous opportunity to make good choices and further our relationships with our friends, our family and our God.  There is also the very real danger of choosing unwisely and hurting, maybe even destroying, those relationships.

   God gave us the gift of free will which enables us to make such choices without His interference.  If we want His help in choosing we must ask for it and it will be given.  He desires to help us along our way but He will never force Himself upon us.

   Adam and Eve made the wrong choice.  They chose to try to become like God, to use their own judgement to determine what is good and what is evil.  As a result of their prideful decision paradise was lost.  Abraham made the right choice when he left his homeland to follow God’s way.  As a result he would become the father of the Israelite nations.  Everything is determined by the choices made.

   Today, as always, the choice is ours but so are the consequences of that choice.  We can choose to follow God or we can take the path of the world.  A wise choice will lead us to eternity with our Lord; a bad one may condemn us to eternity without Him.  As with our first parents and Abraham it’s all in how we decide.  The choice is ours.

   “but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24: 15)