Do We Have Choices?

♦ May 24, 2024 ♦ Leave a comment


Have you considered how many choices we make on a daily basis? What to wear, breakfast or not, which route to take to go to work or school. But what about the way we react to situations around us? Choices.

So I thought I would share some scriptures celebrating choices.

Choose life

(NIV) Deut 30:19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Choose Hope

Isaiah 40:31 – But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.

Jeremiah 29:11 ~ For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Romans 12:12 ~ Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer

Romans 8:24-25 ~ For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

1 Peter 1:3 ~ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

Choose love

1 Corinthians 13:13 – And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Choose joy

Romans 15:13 – May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

(NIV) Phil 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

(NIV) Psalm 16:

11 You make known to me the path of life;

you will fill me with joy in your presence,

with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Are we victims of our circumstances or can we make choices that will affect our outcomes? If we do not have power over anything else, we can choose the way we respond to those things that would cause us pain or fear. The answers are found in God’s Word.

And one final choice:

(NIV) Joshua 24:15 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

May we, beginning today, cease being victims but instead become victorious through Jesus Christ.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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