Choices, Choices. What Choices Are YOU Making?

Choices! Choices! Once more I am thinking of choices. Isn’t it amazing how even the small choices we make affect our entire lives? The interesting thing about the effect of the choices we make is that very often, they do not immediately play out; they would often play out fully in the future. So that the choices we make today may be the strongest way to truly affect/impact our future. Your today is a very important part of your tomorrow except when God scraps everything and gives us a new beginning. 

Choices we make should be made based on principles and for the believer, our principles should be bible based. It is easy to tell what people believe from looking at their choices. When people live life believing nothing, all you need to do is look at the choices they make; it will have no pattern to it. Their choices build up to nothing and together, make no sense. For such people, the future is bleak. When they look into their future, all they see is nothingness. This is the reason a number of people end up in depression or some even commit suicide.

Hosea 8: “They have planted the wind and will harvest the whirlwind.”

Galatians 6: 8 “Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature.”

Any choice made outside of bible based principles are rooted in the flesh. No matter how subtle the influence of the flesh may seem, it actually made the decision: and the flesh is influenced by the devil. It should not be so for believers but a lot of us still fall into this trap. As believers, if we do not take a definite stance in our minds regarding what we believe, we will do just about anything. We can’t be open- minded. If we are, we permit “the strange birds of the air to build safe nests in our minds” and we may end up like the people that do not know God.

Proverbs 4: 23 & 25 “Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life….look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you. Mark out a straight path for your feet: stay on the safe path.”

The choices we make can be likened to the blocks that add up to making a building. Every choice is a block added to the building. With every step taken in life, a decision is made and every decision is a choice. This is the reason Christians have to be deliberate. A wrong one could take you several steps back much later in life just like wrongly added blocks can be removed much later in the course of the building, but the owner of the house may suffer some loss. It is good to know however, that we have a God that can cause even our wrong choices to somehow work for our good.

I guess the most difficult choices are the ones between seemingly good things. It’s easier when the choice is between good and bad things. When they are all good things, we are in a dilemma but that is why we must exercise ourselves to discern the will of God at all times. The Holy Spirit always knows what is best for the immediate. 

It's Time To Come Up Higher!

Why do Christians often choose to live the low life? Isn’t it sad that we make ourselves less important than God has made us? God saves our souls and causes us to sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus yet we choose the low life. We forget that we are no longer mere mortals by reason of the Holy Ghost indwelling us. Our spirit man has been released into life and is empowered to control our lives so that we no longer have to live at the low level of the flesh or if you like emotions.

Ephesians 2: 4 & 6NLT “But God is so rich in mercy, and He loved us so much…for He raise us from the dead along with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ Jesus”

Before a man gives his life to Christ, his spirit is dead; so he cannot help but be guided only by what he feels, sees or hears. At that point, man is led by his heart or intellect, all of which is at the low level of the soul. Without Christ man has no choice but to be guided by anything but his spirit because his spirit is dormant, without life and so unable to guide him until it is quickened by the Holy Spirit.

A number of unsaved people recognizing the need to be guided by something bigger than the soul but not wanting to accept Christ; get involved in several spiritual journeys that they hope will take them to another level, but end up nowhere. They perceive that the next level is somewhat spiritual so they want to project their minds, which they call spirit, hoping it will take them into that next level. They are like their master, the thief, who never wants to enter through the right door. Anyone who does not enter through the right door is a thief and that includes anyone trying to project in any way into a realm that is open only to as many as give their lives to Jesus.

John 10: 1 & 9NLT “I tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than going through the gate, must surely be a thief and a robber…Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. They will come and go freely and will find good pastures.”

As soon as a man turns his life to Jesus, the Holy Spirit comes to give life to his spirit. It just happens; he doesn’t need to do anything to make it happen. From that day, the Holy Spirit is then available to guide him in all things pertaining unto life. The man begins to learn a new way of life which is higher and better than in the past. The sad thing though is that a lot of us prefer to remain where we were. God assuages the need of man and yet man prefers to operate as he used to.

Romans 8: 15 & 16 NLT “So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s spirit when He adopted you as His own children. Now we call him, Abba, Father. For His spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children.”

Unfortunately, we have so exalted the wrong things that we think it is okay to make all life’s decisions based on emotions. It is sadder still for women, because we often think it is okay for women to live at that very low level of making decisions based on emotions and we say it is feminine. It is an insult to the woman God made. God is calling us to higher grounds. It is time to come up higher in God. It is time to operate like royalty that we now are.