Choices and the power of a made up mind
We are our choices. God give you the power to choose. It's called free will, but even though we have free will our choices in the end have power over our lives.
Remember thy creator in the days of thy youth (Eccl. 12:1.) There are always two paths in front of us at any given moment. What path we choose is dependent on one choice we make. That Choice is weather or not to serve God. When you choose God, I mean really choose God as your lord and savior every decision is based on that one choice. Those of you who are Young and are making this choice now Listen carefully because you still Have your whole life ahead of you and this choice will make or brake your life. You adults who have lived some and know the consequences of choosing or not choosing God need to ask yourself “How well have I learned from my experiences?” When do you choose God? Is it early in the morning every day. Is it sometimes in the morning and sometimes in the afternoon? Is it in the middle of a crisis? Or is it a continuous choosing that simply goes on and on? This is a mind made up.
Job made up his mind to serve God, so much so that when his many children decided to have a celebration he lined them up the next morning to pray for them, in case they might have sinned. He said as for me and my house we will serve the Lord and wholeheartedly. Why do you think Job was so successful? Godly choices that's why. His Business had a CEO named Lord.
Ruth and Orpah both lost their husbands and were at a cross roads. One path was to go back to their home town and the place they had always known. A place of familiarity and past relations and friends. Or a place of new beginnings, and new people, and a new way of life. The first option would probably provide a husband among the young men they had always known. Men they grew up with. The second was completely uncertain. But God was with the second choice. God's purpose was with Naomi. Orpah chose to go back but Ruth Clung to her mother in Law Naomi and her mother in Laws God too. She chose God. Nothing would change her mind. And every choice she made after that was based on following God. The results of that choice was, God blessed her with a wealthy husband and a child who is in the lineage of Jesus Christ. (The book of Ruth old testament)
Woe to the rebellious children, declares the Lord, Who execute a plan but not mine. (Isaiah 30:1)
Therefore the Lord Longs (waits) to be gracious to you, and therefore he waits on high to have compassion on you. For the Lord is a God of Justice, how blessed are all those who long (wait) for him. (Isaiah 30:18)
What is God waiting for? He is waiting for us to choose God. He is waiting for us to seek him for direction. He is waiting for us to wait for his leading. For you to say what path should I take Lord. Lord means ruler. Is Jesus your Lord? Remember “Seek first the kingdom of God and all his righteousness and all things shall be added unto you.” (Matt. 6:33)
Job knew how to wait for God. When Job lost everything he had every reason to be bitter. Yet when his wife said Curse God and die. He said “WAIT NO! I made a choice.” “I can't give up now.” “I can't” “I Just can't.” He got double blessings for his faithfulness.
Hannah wanted a child very badly. It was considered a curse to be barren in those days. She needed the shame to be removed from her life. So she sought after God with her whole heart she made a promise to God to devote the most precious thing in her life if he would bless her, Her one and only son. God gave her a son and he was a great prophet for God. I would say her shame was removed, wouldn't you? God was just waiting for her to be willing to give her child over to God's purpose. Are you willing to hand your child over to God's will and purpose. It's not always so easy. (1 Samuel 11:28)
The women with the alabaster box who anointed Jesus' feet and washed them with her hair. She was a prostitute. I could just see her running to the house that Jesus was staying in. In desperation she must have been thinking “will I make it in time, will he be there still. This is my only chance.” Running with all her heart leaving all behind her. Running towards her future. She didn't care about the manner of men who would be there. She could careless what they would say of her. She heard it all before but this was her chance to start a new. This was her chance for repentance. So she ran on. Till she fell at his feet and her life changed forever. She made a choice.(Luke 7: 36-50)
I have made up my mind to serve God. In the middle of November 1997 one Friday night when I had lost hope and was in a deep state of depression, I prayed a prayer. I chose God. I said “If only there was a church I could go to tonight” I didn't want to go to the bar with my friends. I didn't want to spend the night crying again. No! I wanted to be with God. Then the phone rang and it was a friend I hadn't seen in awhile she said “Do you want to go to church with me tonight?” I immediately said yes! I knew God had heard my prayer. That night I chose God and I have never looked back. He is my life! He has given me so much since then. I just keep on choosing him.
Mary Magdalene Didn't care about the soldiers who were outside Jesus' tomb She could have been killed. They were there strictly to keep watch and make sure no one touched the body. But She needed to go there. She needed to be with her Lord. To anoint him once again. She made a choice and didn't care about what would happen to her. She made up her mind to serve him in life or in death it made no difference. In her desperate need to be with him she refused to leave with the others and the angels appeared before her to tell her “He is risen.” and then she saw him. She was the first to hear and see Jesus risen. She was at the right place at the right time. Because she made a choice.
We all have choices and we all go through trials that test our faith to far limits but when you have made up your mind to serve God to allow God to rule and reign in your life Not only are you blessed but God has compassion on you and gives you much grace. He executes Justice on your behalf and shows you favor. He puts you in the right place at the right time and he shows up just when you need him most. When you pass a test he gives you a double portion of blessings for your faithfulness. He makes even the little things of everyday life go so perfect that you have to say “Thank God I couldn't of Planned it better myself.” That is what happens when we Choose God, when we choose him first. So what do you choose? Have you made up your mind? By Virginia Toussaint
