Thoughts on Choices

I was thinking about choices and I wanted to share my thoughts with you. I believe that today many people miss what a choice is, they miss that they can make them; I believe people see that their reactions are just that, but it is more than a reaction, it comes down to the choice that we make. A choice is a voluntary response to something that we do. Let me explain:

Driving down the road and a car pulls in front of me, my reaction is to curse the guy out, but that is the human flesh in me, we have a choice to make, either give into the human flesh desire to curse him out, or take a choice and just pray for that guy.

Same thing happens at work, we get into work late, our boss calls us out on it, our human reaction is to blame it on the traffic, to blame it on the kids, the choice that we have is to just allow our human desires to take hold or to make the choice to do something about it.

Or since it is Monday, our human flesh says oh man it is Monday, I don't want to start work, I don't want to go into work today, it is going to be a bad day, because it is Monday, but we have a choice to make, to praise God despite all of that, we have to make the choice not to give into the flesh.

In our relationships, our human flesh/desire is to give what we get, so if we do not feel loved, it is hard to give love, or if we feel slighted we want to do the same thing back. But it comes down to the choice to give into the human desires or to rise above and make a choice to be different, to love unconditionally, to not treat the other person the same way they are treating you. It is time to start making choices and stop just allowing our flesh to do the choosing for us.

Our human flesh is very powerful. Paul talks about it in all of his teachings, it is covered by David in the Psalm's, it is talked about by Job and so many places in the Bible. There isn't a place where the people in the bible said it would be easy being different then others, it comes down to choices. We either live like everyone else giving into the fleshly desires or we rise up and stand, be different, be who God is calling us to be. It is in making a choice to respond, to react differently, it is time to be the people that follow Jesus Christ no matter what, no longer basing our reactions on others, but basing them on Jesus Christ.

To make the choices is difficult, but no one said it would be easy to do what is right. The flesh says do it the easy way, but Jesus said do it His way. Which way do you want to do it today?