by Bonita Seelig
I guess we were in our early forties, and our dear friends were in their fifties, just a step ahead of us. Finding themselves in need of buying a new recliner chair for their new house, our friends shopped and shopped for that recliner. They bought several, and sent them back. Bought one, complained about it not being just right, had the chair reworked, and then shopped for another one. I thought to myself “Just buy a dad-gum chair! What was all the fuss about?”
Then, we became older and needed to buy a recliner. Now, we discovered what the fuss was about. None of them are alike, none of them fit the same, and they definitely didn’t have the same price. What we found, in the search for something comfortable, we made ourselves more uncomfortable. We should have stayed with the first uncomfortable chair instead of buying two more uncomfortable chairs. We started with a mistake and carried it with us to the next mistake.
We had not walked our friend’s journey. We had not been in need of a recliner before. But, ah … we now know the aggravating disappointment of a wrong choice. A plan gone awry. A chair that does not fit! We chose the wrong chair several times.
Have you ever found yourself with a choice that doesn’t fit? One that you know is wrong at the onset. Many times choices are more than just buying a chair. The bad decision you make will never be right no matter how you try to rearrange everything in your life to make it so. A wrong choice just stays wrong. Once you have made that wrong choice are you willing to admit it?
Each day is full of choices … choices that affect your today and your tomorrow … choices that either reflect God or reflect the world. So, how do we make sure we make the right choices? Taking that first step toward the right choice means totally depending on the information you have at hand, and that information needs to be:
- Correct
- Tested
- Dependable
- Trustworthy
- Tried and True
Sound familiar? The Word, GOD’s Word, is just the right reference book we need in our hands and in our heart so that, when life decisions need to be made, we can make the right choice.
How many life choices did you make today?
If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. (Joshua 24:15 NASB)
You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. (John 15:16 NASB)
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants. (Deuteronomy 30:19 NASB)
Have you noticed we’re back with the Facebook sing-a-longs? Every few days I post the lyrics to a song, hymn or chorus for us to sing as a Facebook family! If you and I are not already Facebook friends, look me up, then join us in singing! It’s a lot of FUN!
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