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Choices.

We are faced with them from the moment the alarm goes off in the morning …

  • Get out of bed or hit the snooze button?
  • Socks, slippers or barefoot?
  • Coffee or tea?
  • Email or devotional?
  • Pancakes or yogurt?

The choices come at us right from the start of our day and on it goes until our feet are back in bed.

Choices are that which we select or pick from a wide range of possibilities. We generally choose to go where our heart leads, or the option we like the best. Our personalities and bents lead each of us to make different choices, all of which we hope will lead us to be content, happy, and perhaps even, successful.

“Every choice you make has an end result.” (Zig Ziglar)

“Life is the sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?”
(Albert Camus)

The problem with choices is that generally, it is our heart that makes the choice and our hearts can mislead us:

The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; Who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9, NASB)

Who really knows indeed, for we each tend to think our hearts are in pretty good shape. Yet apart from the guidance of God, we can, and will, make poor choices in life.

Case in point, Abram and Lot.

God directs Abram to leave his home and go to a place yet unknown. Abram packs up everything in obedience and goes. But as families often may experience, Abram and his nephew Lot soon find themselves in a conflict.

The land could not support the growth of their herds, flocks, and cattle. Their herdsmen were constantly finding themselves embroiled in disputes.

Abram proposes they each take a section of land and separate, graciously offering to go the opposite direction of Lot. And Lot gets first choice [there’s our word].

Lot looks over the land in one direction and then the land in the opposite direction. And Scripture then tells us this:

So Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus they separated from each other.” (Genesis 13:11, NASB)

 

I hope you’ll join me at Woman to Woman Ministries HERE as we look at the impact our choices can have on our lives.

 

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