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The Choices We Make

EVERY person is on a journey that leads to life or death. A sobering statement for sure but God’s Word is clear.  

“I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity; in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgements, that you may live and multiply, and that the Lord your God may bless you… So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, by loving the Lord your God…” (Deuteronomy 30:16,19).

The older I have become the more aware that I am the sum total of all the choices I have made over all the years of my life.  We make our choices and our choices in turn make us.

From the life of Joshua: “If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve… but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15). 

From the life of Elijah: “How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the Lord is God follow Him; but if Baal, follow him” (I Kings 18:21)

Psalm 1:6 shows us the end result of the ultimate choice: “For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.” 

From Solomon: “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death” (Proverbs 14:12)

And from the Lord Jesus Christ: “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:13-14

Good choices are mulled over in prayer and committed to God. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5-6)

Bad choices disregard God and others, are self-gratifying and result in painful and often long-lasting consequences.  “Thus says the Lord, cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the Lord” (Jeremiah17:5).  “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction” (Galatians 6:7-8).

Pray for the courage to choose wisely in all things!  There is no more important choice than what one chooses to believe about Jesus!  Think about it!  

  An MCHA Stop~n~Think - 07.31.2026 - Courtesy of  MCHA Ministry Coordinator Tim Chastain