Choices

Have you ever thought about how many choices you make in your lifetime? What about the number of choices you make in a day? In reading these words you have just exercised your ability to make a choice (I hope you feel it was a good choice). Day after day we are faced with a huge list of choices including a few of the following:

Paper or plastic
Window seat or aisle
Regular or decaf
Smoking or nonsmoking
Mild or spicy
Old fashioned glazed or apple fritter (oops, maybe that's just me)
Sweet or unsweet
Sunday School or snooze button

In the Old Testament, following the death of Moses, Joshua became the leader of God’s chosen people. In Joshua 24:14-15 we read about a choice God was giving His people. God’s Word says, “Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve…But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” God’s desire is to help us make the right choices. He tells us to “choose life” (Deut. 30:19). In reading John 14:6 we see that Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” God not only wants us to make the right choice, He also lets us know what the right choice is!

So today, amidst all of the numerous choices you will make (some will be easy, and some will be difficult; some will be simple, and some significant) let me encourage you to choose wisely.

Jesus…yes or no