Choices We Make

What kind of choices do you make each day?
     Think about what you do on an average day.

When we wake up in the morning we start making choices.
     Our first choice is do we want to get up or not?

What do you think about when you first wake up, while you are still lying there?

Do you ever say to yourself, Heavenly Father I love you, Jesus I love you Holy Spirit I love you, you are all precious to me and I want to be like you?
     Maybe I am a little odd but I have tried to make that a choice for awhile now. Most every day before I speak to my wife I have already expressed my love and praise to my heavenly Father and Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I will always try to make this a priority in my life.  My wife and I have this little thing that we do most every morning. We tell each other that we love each other but we take it a little farther than that. We will say something like this, "I love you lots and lots and lots of big huge, gigando, colossal bunches and bunches and bunches." It is something we have done for many years now. Even that is a choice, we can do it or we don’t have to do it.


The Bible says in Matthew chapter 6 verse 33, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you."  This verse talks about choices also. I know that this verse is talking about food and clothing but I think it goes beyond that.

The Bible says that we should give the Lord the first fruits.  I relate this with spending time with the Lord early in the day and so that’s what I try to do.  When I give the Lord the first part of the day it seems like the day goes better. I have found that the choices we make either result in blessings or consequences.

Think about this: Our prisons and jails are full of people that made bad choices.  Every day we are faced with right or wrong choices.

Over the years there have been many church people and some of your own friends who have made the wrong choice and now they are not in church anymore, they drifted away and became spiritually shipwrecked. I want to make this very clear not all the people that leave a Church have made a bad choice. Many pastors have bought into the popularity system and they’re so afraid to offend anyone that they preach watered-down sermons. They start catering to their people instead of honoring God, which is a formula for disaster. If the people are being entertained and just catered to and not changed they need to find a church where the truth is taught and where they will be convicted through the Holy Spirit and repent through godly sorrow and confess their sin so that they can grow to be more like the Lord. Being stirred up emotionally to make a decision just wont cut it.
There are many examples in the Bible about people that made good and bad
choices.
     Jonah made a bad choice and ended up in a big fish’s belly.
     Lucifer made a bad choice and ended up thrown out of heaven and became known as the Devil—God’s enemy.
     David made a bad choice and ended up committing adultery and killing an
innocent man.
     Ananias and Sapphira made a bad choice and lied to Peter and the Holy Spirit about some property they had sold, saying they got less than what they did and they lost their lives.
There are others I could mention but I think you got the message.
David and Jonah and many others made good choices also and were blessed because of them but every one of the bad choices resulted in sin and every one of them brought severe punishment.

Now I want to ask all of you a question:
Have you made some bad choices this week or maybe even today?
　
Out of all of these examples I mentioned, only one truly repented and that was David and that wasn’t until a year later when God sent the Prophet Nathan to David to confront him with the sin that he had committed with Bathsheba and against Uriah.
You can find his repented prayer in Psalms 51.
David had lost his fellowship with God and he was a very miserable person.
His joy was gone and he felt like all his bones had been crushed. Sin always separates us from God and should make us feel miserable. Think of what David said, "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise."

Now you have a choice to make--you can deal with your sin now and repent or
you can continue to be separated from God and be miserable. This is between you and God, not you and me.

Remember when Lazarus came out of the tomb he was still bound with grave clothes, he was alive but he wasn’t set free until they removed the grave clothes.  Just like Lazarus we are alive too but, if there is still unconfessed sin in our lives that has not been repented of we are also bound.

So let’s do business with God and let Jesus set us free! Seek godly sorrow and confess your sin and repent, then you will be free indeed. The Bible says when the Son sets you free you are free indeed!
Praise God!