…maybe the most utilized gift of GOD

one of the most overlooked but maybe the most utilized gift of GOD is the gift of free choice.   GOD could have chosen to make us robots, just puppets on a string that kind of act at his bidding.  but that’s not what he did.  instead GOD chose to create us as intelligent men and women that have the freedom to make choices.  and so the best way to use GOD’s gift is to learn to make the best possible decisions.

some decisions are more complex because the consequences of these decisions are more life altering.  a single, happy, well-educated young woman, she has a good job.  she has a happy life.  but recently she’s found herself being attracted to several of the single men at her church.  should she get married?  if so, which of these men should she marry?  she’s trying to make a good decision. 

we’ve all come to these crossroads in our life.  do i take ‘this’ career path?  do i take ‘that’ career path.  do i stay put?  do i move cross-country?  decisions! 

someone said decisions are the building blocks of life.  that your life really is the sum total, brick upon brick, of the choices and the decisions you’ve made.  if your life is going well it’s probably because you’ve made good choices.  if your life is going poorly it may be the result of poor decisions you’ve made along the way.

JESUS told the story in matthew 7 about two men who each went out to build a house.  they had decisions to make.  one man decided to build his house upon a sand foundation.  the other man built his house on a stone foundation.  one house withstood storms when they came, while the house on the sand collapsed.  both had a decision.  each decided something differently.  and they each experienced a different outcome. 

GOD gave me this fantastically powerful gift that i have to choose what my life will be.  and GOD has given you the some responsibility.  your life, the shape of your life, will be based upon the bricks and the building materials you put in place and the decisions that you make.

even those who are afraid to make decisions – the indecisive types.  you just have a hard time coming to a decision, that is a decision.  deciding not to decide is a decision that you’ve made.  and what happens in your life will be a result of that decision.

just a thought from the front porch…