Choice Makes a Difference
But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a
pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:26 (NIV)
We
need to be careful
of the land and life we choose
to occupy. Abraham gave Lot his choice.
God always
gives you and me our choice, each day, each season, each decade of our lives:
"Where
will we dwell
in body, mind, and spirit?” Our choice!
We
need
to
choose what we
want
to be, and who we are
going to be with. How our life
will go is up to
us.
Sure
there
are variables, over some of which we
have
no control, but the
compromises we decide
to make, and where we spend
our
time
is a conscious decision.
It's our choice.
But, once we make
it, we must
take the consequences. “We shape our
dwellings,”
Churchill once wrote, “and afterwards, our dwellings shape us.”
[
Henry
Ward
Beecher, the great preacher of a century ago, was talking one day to a young
man in
his study. The boy was telling the pastor what a mess he had made of his life, as
one thing
led to another. You have heard it before. Finally, seeking to justify himself, he
said to
Dr. Beecher: "Sir, what would you have done if you had been in my place that
night?"
Beecher said: "I would never have been in your place that night." An
ounce of
prevention is
still worth a pound of cure.
What
it
means is
that if we
court
trouble, trouble
will
find
us. Play
with fire, and we
will get burned.
"Whatever
you sow," the Bible
says,
"that you will also reap."
"Choose
the land we will
occupy. Come with Abraham
and Jesus
Christ up to the hill country and live with a purpose, or go down to the city of
Sodom and
live with what’s left!" Compromise and cut corners, or stay straight and
steady.
Seek the weak and tawdry treasures of the now, or fasten oour
life
to all that
endures. It’s
our choice.
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