Choices

Earlier in the year, I wrote a blog in which I mentioned that I hoped for a few firsts in 2013.  Well I should have watched what I asked for because I’ve sure received them!

A trip to the ER

First daily medication

First grey hairs (just a COUPLE) J

Lines around my eyes (boohoo)

While it seems like most of these occurred overnight they have been in work for awhile.  It just sometimes takes a long time for effects to be visible or felt.  Much like sin. 

Sin usually starts innocently enough.   “I’ll just do this once, it’s really no big deal, no one will know” ….but sin feels good and is hard to stop once the avalanche begins.  A person doesn’t normally turn away from God overnight.  It happens slowly.  Priorities begin to shift and an “it’s all about me and what I want” mentality creeps into the mind.  This is a frightening place to be.  Why? Because we are feeding and coddling the carnal and starving the spiritual man.  It is hard to feel the presence of God and hear His voice when our spiritual man is gasping for breath. 

Life can be taken in an instant.  We won’t always have tomorrow or even the next hour.  We won’t always have the next churchservice to get right with God.  If there is something pulling you away from God, I’d like you to take a moment and think is it really worth it?  Is it worth losing my testimony?  Is it worth not living the life of an overcomer?  It’s not always sin that pushes us from God…sometimes weights move us off track.  What are weights?  Weights are anything that takes priority over our personal relationship with Christ.

Hebrews 12: 1 -3 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience, the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

If you find yourself weary and faint there is good news!  If we will only listen, we can still hear the peaceful call of His voice.  I miss our time together.  We must tune in to His voice.  Slow down.  Read the word.  Commune with the Father. 

I love the story of King David.  He royally messed up in a lot of areas but he was not bitter, was a worshipper, was hard working, and committed.  He was a man after God’s heart. If we have found ourselves struggling we can choose to learn and grow from those struggles.  They don’t have to weigh us downforever. 

The wake up call I received earlier in the year, regarding my health, has created a determination to change.  While I wish I had never got that unhealthy and overweight, the two choices I now have are to continue hurting my body with bad choices or make up my mind that I am going to make good choices.  Even though I still carry the weight of unhealthy eating, I already feel better than I have in a long time! While we may still carry the effects of sin or things that have weighed us down…. all we have to do is make up our mind.  This is it.  This is the day I choose God first.  I choose to feed the spiritual and starve the carnal.  I choose to be an overcomer.  What will YOU choose?  I pray you choose to be an overcomer.  “If you do what you can, God will do what you can’t.”