Choices....

As I sit here typing...I'm stuffed and laughing at what I am typing! After polishing off a Toblerone and 2 cups of tea, 500 calories later... I don' think...I know I made the wrong choice! Was it great in the moment? Oh yeah! Am I feeling it now?? (sigh) oh yes...
Throughout our life, and through out our day we have the power to make many choices. Starting from the minute that alarm clock goes off. We can choose to reach over and tap that snooze button one more time, or will we can choose to get out of bed to spend time in the face of our Lord? We can choose to go that extra mile at breakfast time....or we can let everyone fend for themselves. Life is full of many choices, and often we don't make the choices we wish we had due to inconvenience, lack of patience, frustration or no motivation. I desire to live a life full of purpose, a life full of beneficial choices...do I always make them? No. Do I do my best to try? Yes. We need to start living on purpose with purpose, choosing sometimes the more "inconvenient choice" if it means the better one. Pressing on and pushing through those lazy and tired moments to fulfill the need that truly needs or should be met.

We have the choice to see things negatively or positively. Each one of us has the power to choose the positive or negative outlook on any given situation, and the way we choose to respond doesn't usually solely effect us...but tends to affect others around us also.

When we are in that grocery line and it seems to be going no where fast....we have the opportunity to get agitated and aggravated, or, we can choose to speak life into the person ahead of us or behind us in line. When cooking dinner and realizing our recipe made far more than our family needs...we have the opportunity to choose to freeze it, throw it out, or we can choose to go that extra step and bless one of our neighbours with a nice hot meal. In this day and age for some that might be a bit of a stretch, reaching out to a neighbour you hardly know, but nevertheless it's still a blessing! You can choose in those "absent minded moments" to yell and scream or to use it as a teaching moment. (using it as a teaching moment requires more time, but saves time in the end as you don't have to go back and apologize:) We can choose to stretch ourselves, or choose to be content. We can choose to make a difference in our circumstances and change the atmosphere or we can choose to leave it up to others and hope they'll choose what we were to afraid to. We can choose to offer up a sacrifice of praise or we can choose to be overcome with the situation. When I'm with my children and one of them seems to be upset or discontent, I say "Okay, lets offer up a sacrifice of praise" I start to sing...as they stare at me...and within minute or two they start to sing along just to sing, but it then turns into worship, it takes a minute or two, but when they choose to press in the heaviness is broken and their Spirit is once again soaring. But it's their choice to surrender their will to His or to hold onto it.

I challenge you to live a life full of purpose, choosing not only what is always convenient but what is pleasing to our Father. Choose to live a life yielded to the Spirit, lean on Him in the midst of your choices, He is the one who will and continues to guide us in all wisdom and truth!
~Good night~
H