Choices

We all have choices to make. We have to choose everyday what we will wear.....eat....drink.....which roads to take to work.....if we will get out of bed.....
Some choices don't require much effort. Some things in our life are so routine we don't have to think about choosing.....we just do it.

When we first got married we rented a home. We knew we wanted to own a home so in less than a year we, (my husband and I) chose to purchase a mobile home from his mother. It wasn't much, but it would be ours and we would own it one day when it was paid off. Before we signed the contract we had to sit down and figure out our budget......compare that to what we paid monthly......and chose what was best for us as a family. It was an easy choice. We packed our stuff and moved in a few weeks. We were so happy back then to be in that little place. Like I said it wasn't much, but some of the best years of our married life were spent in that trailer. At that time, we only had 2 kids and they were real small. In time we had our third and they all began to grow......grow to where this little trailer was too small for us.😔 So......back to where we were 7 years earlier. We had a choice to make.

Once someone wanted to buy our home we were on a quest to find a new one......looking all over....but finally finding one that would work for our family. This time, our kids were big enough to have input in the choice we had to make. We took them house hunting with us and they helped choose our next place to live. These examples of choices are big ones and thankfully ones that don't come along too frequently in our lives. It's the small choices we tend to struggle with....at least I do.

Small choices In whether I should have my afternoon coffee.....or get gas when the needle is 1/4 full......or eat a salad or cheeseburger.......pay electric bill or buy food......say what's on my mind or keep quiet......fall into the temption I want so badly.......be nice or not......have someone over for dinner or go to their house......spend time with people or read alone in my room.......
All these things I have to choose, same as anyone else. We all have to choose all day long. This is part of our free will. We can choose one thing or one way over another.

Our God gives us free will to make choices.......however the biggest and most important choice we will ever make is for Him or against Him. We all have to choose to follow Jesus or not. We cannot avoid this decision. One day we will all give an account for our life on this earth. One day we will bow before a holy God and have to answer for our choices we made in this life. I didn't make the choice for Jesus until I was 26 years old. Don't be like me in living for self and sin for too many years before realizing how great and merciful our God is. We all deserve punishment for our rebellion against Him, but in His grace he will forgive us and come into our life. Jesus died so we wouldn't have to. He died and make us righteous with a holy God. He died to live and give us eternal life with Him. There is no better choice we can make.....especailly when our eternal life is at stake.