Choice. We all have it, every minute of every day. Left hand or right. We choose. Even when things seem hopeless, we still have choice.
Certainly, there are times we can’t “fix” the things happening around us, and that makes our choices harder. We can, however, “fix” how we deal with our circumstances. We can choose to be angry, or we can choose something better.
Genesis 1:1-5 tells the story of the first choice.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.”
God saw darkness and formlessness, a world that was incomplete. Yet, in that moment, he didn’t focus on what wasn’t. Instead, he focused on what could be, the possibilities, and what he wanted this world to become. God focused on the positive. He sought the good that the world could be.
Not everyone sees with the eyes of God. There are those who wish us to believe the darkness is all we’ll ever see, that there is no light at the end of the tunnel, and God will not be there for us when we need him.
1 John 4:1 is our answer to these prophets of doom:
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
That puts the onus on our shoulders. Whom do we choose to believe?
Acts 2:38 shifts our focus from the negative:
“And Peter said to them, ‘Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’ ”
James 1:17 says better things await the faithful:
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.”
John 3:16 assures us there is no good thing the Father will not give us:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
We have two choices, one for our left hand, and another for our right. We can choose to believe the lies of the devil, or we can choose to believe in Christ. He is the good spirit, the one who lives in the Christian’s heart, and offers every good and every perfect gift unto us. How we lived yesterday reveals the choices we once made. How we live tomorrow reveals the choice we make today. Let’s choose Jesus, the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
When we choose Christ, every other choice we make will begin to line up with the Word of God. That’s how simple Christianity really is.
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