I mentioned to a group of men I am so glad people will start voting in the next few weeks in the presidential primaries. All of this polling data and so many candidates yelling and screaming for media attention makes me crazy. I want more substance on real issues. In my opinion that has not happened yet. I am hoping when real people begin to make real choices then we will see real candidates.
Choice is the mainstay of our American culture. Look at many busy corners there will be four convenience stores, one on each corner. Why? I practical thinker would say you only need one as they are all about the same. An entrepreneur would say the market will determine how many are needed. We the consumer will say I like choice. This one has friendlier…this one has a better selection of…or this one is on my way to work on the same side of the road. It really is a subjective decision. We make choices every day.
Included in the vast soup of choice each day is perhaps one or two choices that outline the structure of each day. The choice of who we serve and how we will respond to the adventures life throws our way. Do we choose to react from gut emotion and instinct or do we make a choice to respond from a framework of conviction, faith and trust? That is a BIG way to start the day. Usually I’m trying to decide what I want to drink hot tea or coffee. That decision alone seems beyond my capacity most day. In reality it is the choice to follow God or not each and every day. Let me offer some ideas how to make the best choice for a believer.
Today:
I will believe God. I will invite my God to be the God of my circumstance(s). He is God over the good, bad, expected and unexpected.
I will trust God. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical…the tool of a lazy thinker. It’s so easy going-to-hell-in-a-hand-basket thinking. To think that what you know is all there is. You think you are God of your situation until the wheels come off and you are stuck unable to do anything about it. It’s not all lost! You are part of a bigger family. You are a winner!
16-18 Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We’re free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him. 2 Corinthians 3:16-18 The Message
Things to consider: Joy is a benefit of a believer. Are you a believer?
With which spirit have you been walking? The spirit of this world of darkness or the Spirit of Light of the Kingdom?
What choice will you make?
In HIS Service and Yours,
Bro G
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