A Choice Every Day

There are 365 days every year.  That's 365 days that are available to all of us to make a choice. The choice we make on any given day will determine who we are, what we are, and how we do life.  Each day we alone make the choice:

•  to be happy or not be happy.
•  to be kind or not.
•  to be loving or not.
•  to be forgiving or not.
•  to deign that, in spite of circumstances, we will seek joy and calm in our lives or not.
•  to look for the good or bad in everyone with whom we come in contact.
•  to be transparent or not, about ourselves.
•  to view our life as a half filled cup or a half empty cup.
•  walk with the Lord or do life without Him.
•  to trust Him or not.

Clearly, there are positive choices and negative choices that we can make. No matter what choice we make, it will have an impact on every relationship we have that day.  For example, the grumpy good-bye kiss in the morning or the encouraging and affirming kiss and hug with the wife will play a role in how the day unfolds for each.  Throughout the day, the choices made at the beginning of the day will play a role in how you conduct yourself, and how you are viewed by others, despite all circumstances that occur that day.

If one of our daily choices is to walk with the Lord and trust Him, all of the positive choices will come naturally to us.

 

I doubt that any of us know anyone who wilfully makes the choice to be a negative person when they get up in the morning, though we occasionally run into some whose demeanor might suggest that.  Those folks, I fear, just don't think that they do have a choice to be otherwise, or perhaps they haven't made the choice to walk with the Lord.

 

Bottom Line Question: Do you start your day making the choice to strengthen your walk with the Lord so that all those other choices that will define you will be the easy choices to make?