Choices

Choices

      Our days are filled with choice after choice. Some of the choices we make really are trivial choices and other choices will shape who we are. I know for many of us that first choice starts right off in the morning. Do I hit snooze or get up? Then we are up making choices after choice. Do I stop and get coffee? Do I try and make this light? Do I turn the radio down and pray? Do I go to mass today? The choices are endless till we fall asleep at night. 

     We were given free will and in that free will we have all these choices. In the United States we are very luck that we get so many choices in our lives from what we want to watch on tv, to our jobs, to who we have in leadership. Sometimes we take all the choices for granted.  I know I do at times.

      God gives us the choice to follow Him or not to follow. He doesn’t force His was into our hearts but rather waits for us to allow this to happen. We have to make that choice to do so and I feel that this is not a one time choice either. Everyday God is asking us to speak to Him, to pray to Him, to seek Him, etc.... We have to make that choice and say yes to Him everyday. 

      The idea of God not only giving us that free will to choose to follow Him and have Him in our hearts but to give us that choice everyday. God doesn’t offer us a two year contract where we sign and have to love and honor Him during those two years and if we cancel early that we have to pay a high price to get out of it. He paid the high price already and that was when Jesus died for us on the cross. He didn’t wait for us to make the choice, He sent His Son to earth so when we make that choice it is already answered. God will always be there for when we choose to follow Him and allow Him in our hearts.

       We don’t wake up and say “ Ok God, I am following you again today”. He knows it each day. When we act like Christ, we pray, we ask for guidance, we see Him in the world, then we are making that choice to be with Him. 

      

         God offers us forgiveness, love, grace and salvation all day long and it doesn’t matter that you said no or yes a hundred thousand times before, He still offers it. That choice is there for us to make and when we do He still makes sure it is our choice everyday. He doesn’t force us to stay. 

          It is like that saying “ If you love someone let them go and if it is meant to be, then they will return”. God gives us that choice to return to Him, time and time again. 

Until tomorrow, God Bless, and remember the choice is yours, choose wisely.