Choices

Every day we are faced with choices. Most are seemingly small choices: what will I wear? What should I say? How shall I plan this or that part of my day?

We are also faced with what seem to be bigger choices: What would God want me to spend my energies on? How would He have me respond when I see injustice, sin, poverty, or other needs in this world? What do I do with the desires He has placed in my heart? How do I know if those desires are from Him or are just selfish desires? What is His specific plan for my life?

Many people offer their advice and good ideas. There are hundreds of books – good ones – that people have written that share the wisdom they have received from God and telling their stories of following God’s leading in their lives. These are encouraging, but leave me wondering today… What is God’s specific direction for my life?

To find that specific direction I must go to the heart of Him that created me and has made my heart clean through His Son, Jesus. As I spend time in worship and communion with Him, I learn more of His nature and character and can grow in the trust that He knows what is best and will reveal His direction in His perfect time and way. Through His Spirit He will give His direction in all the choices – both small and big – that I will and do face.

I want to lay aside anything that is not His direction for my life. I don’t want anything, as good or wonderful as it may seem, to distract me from the path He is calling me to follow. I want God’s best and I want to live a life that is fully alive and complete in Him!

So today, as we face those inevitable choices, let’s purpose to spend time in worship and fellowship with the One who created us and who loves us with an everlasting love.

“How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand…” Psalm 139:17-18a

Father, fill us with Your Spirit and give us grace to follow Your leading with trusting and joyful hearts. Amen.

Love,

Christy