Making Choices

Psalm 139

Life is full of choices…The question is: what choice should one make to not make a mistake? Wait, isn’t making mistakes part of the learning process of life? Why should we be afraid of making mistakes when we have our Savior who will make things work for us regardless of the route we take?

Just recently, I was faced with a decision I needed to make for good, for my own good. I had been in prayer (and still am) with God about it. Nonetheless, the process of making a decision of this degree has been overwhelming to me. I have consulted my girl friends as well for wisdom and their perspective, but even then that has been difficult to handle. One person can tell you to do one thing and the other another thing. Should one choose to listen to them is another decision to make.

Nonetheless, what I find it to be the most important decision to make is to go the route God wants us to go. Yes, we all know that God does not give us concrete answers to our requests for help, but He certainly does put that answer in our hearts or presents them to us in ways that we cannot even understand. He knows where we are going; He knows what our next move will be; He knows us from the minute He decided to send us to this world. That is the beautiful thing about being His creation for as Psalms 139: 1-6 says to us:

            O Lord, you have searched me and known me!

            You know when I sit down and when I rise up;

                        you discern my thoughts from afar.

            You search out my path and my lying down

                        and are acquainted with all my ways.

            Even before a word is on my tongue,

                        behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

            You hem me in, behind and before,

                        and lay your hand upon me.

            Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

                        it is high; I cannot attain it.

How can we fathom how much God knows about us if we do not believe in Him?

Our Creator has a plan for us, and we are living it every day.  We make choices from the moment that we wake up to when we go to sleep. Everything we decide to do determines what will happen next, but always keep in mind that God is who gives us free will—He allows us to make our own choices through Him.

Our complex lifestyles allow us to choose to include certain things in and decide to cut things out. In the end we make our choices. Let us not to forget the best choices made are those God put in our hearts for it is the Holy Spirit He sends to us to make the decision to walk our journey with Him. Thus, always pray about the choices to make or already made because in those choices God should always be glorified!