LIFE IS ABOUT TAKING DECISIONS

Life is about taking decisions; it is all about making choices. There are countless choices before every man or woman, boy or girl, old or young on a daily basis. We all have a choice to be good or bad; merciful or unforgiving; loving or hateful, joyous or resentful, caring or greedy, godly or ungodly, to be chaste or immoral.

At the dawn of each day, you have a choice to either remain on your bed or to rise and go to work; you have the choice to enter the kitchen and prepare something to eat or visit a “Bukka” or restaurant; you have a choice to dress casual or corporate; to be early to work or to be late; you have a choice to reverence God or to be indifferent toward Him; you have the will to follow God’s command or to pitch your tent with Satan.

Life is about taking decisions. God decided to create the heavens and the earth. It was His decision to create man and woman in His image and likeness. Yes, it is His choice to continuously call man and woman to Himself; to show us the path to life; to show us mercy, compassion and love; it was His decision to allow His Beloved Son to shed His blood for humanity on the cross of Calvary.

Life is a choice. It is also a choice to commit suicide, to abort a baby, to commit adultery, fornication, masturbate, hook up with the pornographic world, to live a life of half or completely nudity, to molest children, to be single, married or divorce, to rob the community resources, to hate, to harm, to kill, to deprive people of their rights, to distort the Good News, to go to war, to become gay, to rape or marry an animal, to be angry and arrogant, to be rebellious, to be proud, to cheat, to trample on the helpless, to be a responsible father, mother, child or shepherd.

Beloved, in your daily decisions, always keep in mind Moses’ statement to the Israelites, “This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life.” (See Deuteronomy 30:19). You may query the significance of Moses’ statement. The decision you make daily is a choice for life or death; to please God or rebel against Him. You may query the significance of Moses’ statement. The decision you make daily is a choice for life or death; to please God or rebel against Him.

Hence, Christ is saying: do not follow the broad path that leads to damnation but the narrow road that leads to life (See Matthew 7:13), take up your crosses and journey with Me on the path of sacrificial love (See Matthew 16:24-26), for I am the way to the Father (See John 14:6). Our ultimate decision is to heed His call or to reject it. But at the end of the road of life, we will be held accountable for our decisions! So, be wise in your decisions.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end is the way of death (Proverbs 14:12)

Prayer

Lord Jesus, grant me the wisdom to take the right decisions daily, and fill me with Your grace to persevere on the path to life eternal. Amen.

Jesus Christ Speaks

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. (John 13:34-35 NRSV).