“Every time you make a choice you
are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into
something a little different than it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your
innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central
thing into a heavenly creature or a hellish creature: either into a creature
that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else
into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow
creatures, and with itself. To be the
one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and
power. To be the other means madness,
horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to
the one state or the other.”[1]
Solomon, according to God’s Word, was the wisest man of his
generation. His writings reflect that
wisdom, and in this advice to his children, that wisdom instructs them to turn
their attention to God’s ways. They will
find their lives will be blessed proportionately to how well they tune their
ears to God’s teachings.
If our choices in life rest solely on our feeling, or mood when we got up
this morning, the result of our life will be as chaotic as the messy world in
which we live. If our choices are
consistent with just what our friends think, we’re as liable to fall into the
same kinds of holes as they do, prisoners of our own making. Absent of the study of God’s Word and ways,
we are at the mercy of the coin-flip.
Heads, I go this way; tails, it’s the other way.
If the choices you make create you as a Heavenly or Hellish
being at the other end of those choices, leaving the direction your life to the
coin-flip is hardly a plan to inspire confidence in the outcome.
For You Today
Take the road less
traveled today – follow God’s wisdom, and watch it take you to the throne room
of Heaven…it’s there you’ll meet the King of Glory.
There
are about 2,000 devotional posts and 400 sermons in the Rocky Road Devotions library. To dig deeper on today’s topic, explore some
of these: Choices and All-In
[1] Images: Pixabay.com Unless noted, Scripture quoted from The New Living Translation©
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