Drops of Sunshine - Daily Bread

 

 

Many people struggle with making a commitment. Not just in terms of relationships with one another. To dieting, to career paths, and in many other areas in life. When it comes to our faith, struggling to make a choice is not the fence we want to straddle. We must commit to our choice to be children of God and wholeheartedly seek his guidance. We can't do that if our attention is divided.

When I have too many options, I struggle with indecision. One place we don't want to is with our faith. We either choose God or we don't. There is no middle of the road option. That black and white choice may seem daunting in other areas of life, yet, it is essential for our spirit.

 Our trust in something or someone may swing left or right depending on our experience over time. Does this person keep their word? Does that thing hurt me every single time? We begin to learn from those experiences and they inform our future choice. Rather than attempt to build trust with the unreliable, we should instead lay it all on the table with God and truly rely in Him.

I once heard someone say that our souls must be awfully important if God and Satan are at war over them. That's something to think about. More so, if my life is so vital that God would gift the life of his only begotten son, and that only begotten son, Jesus, would willingly lay it down, then this is an invaluable gift I can't and should not want to refuse. 

Growing up, I was always told that lies snowball. One turns into two. Two turns into two thousand. You have to keep lying to cover up the fact that your very statement wasn't the truth. It's much easier to simply be honest. There is no need to deceive others (and yourself!) with a story when you are just telling it like it is.

I think that people sometimes forget or stop caring that the choices we make each day can have a lasting impact. Not just on us, but those around us as well. Rather put all our eggs in the basket of what we see, our goal each day should be to trust God even more than we did the day before. Even for what our eyes tell us is impossible.