Life is a series of choices. We make them every day, hour to hour, minute to minute. And all choices have consequences – for good, or bad. The choices we make directly affect us and those around us. While everything in life is not laid out in black and white choices, there are still choices that we can make that give us direction and purpose. Some choices have great consequence, but it is the small, daily choices we make that determine who we will be, no matter the circumstances. By the power of God living in us, if we don’t make these good choices, by default the opposite happens.
We were created with desires for acceptance, purpose, and love. Even from infancy, we are needy beings looking for anything that will satisfy our wants and needs.
We want things that will make us happy, healthy, and complete. As children we thought it was that newest car or bike, and as adults we think that bigger house, better job, or fancy trip to any other country or nations will finally give us the satisfaction we so desperately desire. For some, when those things don’t fill the need, we reach for drugs or alcohol to soothe our aching hearts. These things only leave us empty, exhausted and disappointed, yet still reaching for more.
And God did create us for more! If we allow them, our desires will point us to Him. For it is in Him alone that all our wants and needs can be fulfilled. God is not put off by our needs. He is a loving Father who lavishly gives from His abundance. He is God of life, love, and satisfaction. He created us for relationship. To know Him, love Him and live our lives for Him. Not just to know about Him but to really know Him as a close friend. He invites us into a relationship with Him, to be able to live the life He created us to live. A life filled with purpose, direction and satisfaction. God will never force Himself on us. He will always give us choices.He is a God that pursues us. Choose God or something else will choose your desires.
“For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.”
Deuteronomy 30:16 NIV
“This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 NIV
