Choices

I’ve been thinking a lot about choices. I’ve heard a recent story of someone I know and how the wrong choices were made. That individual will now how to live with those choices going forward.

Growing up in a Christian home, attending Christian schools, going to church three times a week and doing outreach every week; I essentially had Christianity shoved down my throat. I say that in the nicest way possible, I didn’t have a choice in what I did while I was growing up and living at home. I had to do all the church stuff. I didn’t really have a choice until I graduated high school, and even then while I was living at home there were still rules I had to follow. 

As a young single adult, I quickly realized that I had to decide if I was going to live for Christ. I had to decide what I was going to believe. Even then, it wasn’t until my early thirties that I really nailed down my own personal believes and convictions. 

But I did decide when I was in my early twenties, when I had the choice to do whatever I wanted, that I wanted to serve the Lord and live the Christian life. I will be the first to say that it hasn’t always been easy, but it’s been the best life. 

Choices are made every day. We have to choose between right and wrong on a regular basis. When we establish and live by Biblical doctrines and principles, it makes a lot of those choices easier. 

Choose right. 

Choose to serve the Lord.

“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

‭‭Joshua‬ ‭24‬:‭15‬ ‭KJV