As some of you may know my life is a constant thought. Some times I go days thinking of one thing and other times I don’t think of that at all. Lately I have been struggling with different things and have not been as close to God as I would like to be. When I write most of my posts normally I am in one of 2 places; either as close to God as ever, or far away. Either way he lays things on my heart to think about and blog posts are born. Some people think they are the complete reason for some posts, but in reality all but maybe one have just been the thing that gets me thinking. With all of that being said I will go ahead with my post and just ask you to please pray for me. Lots of things are going on right now and some decisions have to be made.
Have you ever been in a restaurant ordering your food and the waiter/waitress asks you whether you want soup or salad? For many, this decision may be simple. If you are a salad person then you can almost never go wrong with a salad because they are pretty basic and the same at every restaurant. Some are soup people though and often are fans of change and trying new things. I have been thinking about the simple question that we may not put very much thought into and overanalyze it in my head. The main point that sticks out to me is that if I chose salad, I will never ever know how that soup was. I will have missed out on that soup forever. Sure you can get it the next time you go to that restaurant but what are the chances of it being exactly the same? On the other hand if I choose the soup what if there is something wrong with the soup and I get sick and die? Or what if the salad would have been the best salad I ever tasted? My point here is that every decision we make ultimately affects the future. We can never go back in time and try it out, until we master the space/time continuum, that is- like that will ever happen.
How many life decisions do we over think or not think enough of? How often do we just coast through life doing as we please and also how often do we go out on a limb to do something that we never thought we would? Every decision we make has some kind of positive or negative effect. Lets say I choose soup one day because I am feeling lucky, knowing that I am completely missing out on the salad, and also assuming we cannot order a separate salad. I am taking the risk that the soup can possibly not taste good at all/make me sick. When I make that choice there is no turning back and I am aware of the consequences. No matter what happens I am stuck with my decision and must live with it. Life decisions are much like ordering dinner. Lets take following God for example. When we choose to follow and obey him things are going to change. We have chosen God and not ourselves/the world. We are aware that we may lose friends, jobs, family, etc and we are also aware that it is not going to be easy, but in our hearts we know that the reward will be much greater than anything we can ever imagine.
In life we have to make decisions. My main point of this entire post is to get others to realize that their decisions should not be taken lightly. But regardless of the decisions we make things are going to change. We must follow our hearts to do what we feel is best for us and most importantly follow God because if God is in our hearts He will make the decisions that will better our lives.
One last note. Please pray that I will let God have his was in my life so that I will not worry with the future and for him to give me peace about things that trouble me the most. Thank you for your time and I appreciate your prayers. Until next time, God bless you.
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