Choices

In my life, I have found so many people that don't understand choices, they seem to think that everything that they go through is just by chance. They don't realize that it is by the choices they make, it is by the decisions they are where they are at, but no one wants to look at this. They want to blame it on everything else. No one wants to take a hard look at themselves, they want to place blame on others. Why is it so hard to really look in the mirror and say I can make a choice to do this differently? Is it that hard to stop blaming everyone else and start taking responsibility? 

When I was younger my Mom taught me to take responsibility for my actions, so many times I wanted to blame others for things I had done. I wanted to say that it was because someone had made me upset, but she would than say to me. But Geoff it was your choice to react, that was such a hard lesson to learn. It was my choice to react, that means I did not have to react, I could have bit my tongue, turned the other cheek, walked away, done something other than react. How many times have I reacted instead of walking away? How many times should I have just taken my foot of the gas and slowed down, how many times should I have just shut my mouth and not said that word? These are all my choices. A reaction is a choice, it is not a learned behavior, it is not a knee jerk reaction, it is a choice and if we start watching our choices, calling them exactly what they are, we will start seeing that we can not blame others anymore. 

Start owning your actions, start saying it was my choice to do that, instead of blaming it on others, start being the difference. Teach your kids to do the same, lets teach the world, because it is time we own our choices and call it that. No longer is it about what color our skin is, what language we speak or where we are from, it is our choice to be who we are. Lets be who we are called to be and rise up and be different, be the people we are meant to be. 

Chose you this day whom you are going to serve. Are you going to serve yourself and blame others? Stand up and be accounted for, be who God calls you to be, He talks about our choices throughout the Bible. It is just if you want to search it or not. Take the time, you will see it too.