Crucial Choices

Our ability to make choices makes us distinctly human. And unfortunately, our uncanny tendency to make wicked choices makes us distinctly sinful human. So today, remembering that it's our choices that shape our character and lives I pray for a heart that would thirst earnestly for decisions informed by the voice of God. To be still and know that voice, the voice which is still echoing since the beginning of creation. To echo timeless words in a brief life.

There are choices to follow the example set in the garden setting the tone for our wayward nature, providing the paradigm for humanity to rebel and lash back against his Creator. There are paths to pave that only few care to seek, these are the paths which we must care to seek.

If we are bothered by God's voice, then our darkness is choking divine light. If we stand too lazy to pray, read, and contemplate, then we decide that God is not worthy of our time and energy. If we stay where we are, we will suffocate in our overwhelming sin. If we choose not to thirst for the voice of God through His Word, then we choose to live in separation and darkness. Everyday, we face important choices. Some days, days too frequent in number, I must force my sinful soul to stop and remember that I have done nothing to earn the right to live another day. Words of praise and tears of thanksgiving should flow, but instead only careless actions with little overarching awareness flow from my stunted mind. It is the voice of God that I need to allow to speak to my every choice. It is God who allows my cold stumbling soul to live another day and be redirected to the warming light of sanctification.