Choose for yourselves today whom you will
serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River,
or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my
house, we will serve the LORD."
Joshua 24:15 NASB
Your current direction will determine your destination. Just as there are paths that have led us to
places we never intended to be, there are paths that lead us away from those
places as well.
Andy Stanley
Andy Stanley
While we consider the options we have in life, it is easy to
forget that a momentary decision can create a lifetime of impact. Choices lead to choices and paths lead to
paths and away from paths. We move our lives along the rails of our
choices. Today’s choices become
tomorrow’s circumstances.
Each of us has a free will which means we have the freedom
to make choices, and every choice has a consequence attached to it – whether it
is a good choice or a bad choice. Sin or
righteousness, consequences always walk hand in hand with
decisions. Decisions of today are
the only control we have. Yesterday’s
are done and tomorrow’s are yet to come.
But yesterday and tomorrow must be considered in today’s decisions. We need to consider yesterday’s decisions and see
if there is anything we learned that we need to remember. We need to consider tomorrow because we need
to think about where today’s decision will lead.
Sometimes, we make bad choices and regret it when we realize
our mistake. That’s part of being human.
We can’t undo the past, but we can always learn from it. Thank God, U-turns are possible through new
choices which set a new direction. We
get out the way we got in - by our choices.
Despite all the mistakes we make, a new day brings with itself new
opportunities and a whole new world of choices.
The free will that God gives us also means we can choose to
serve God or not to serve God. Whatever
decisions we are faced with, if we can remember to filter everything through a
God filter, that will save us a lot of pain and heartache. He tells us the way to go.
Decisions today may
be the correction of bad decisions yesterday.
That is the beauty of a second chance.
