The Sermonette
Choices in Life - Choosing One’s Path
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23).
Father I pray the reader receive your word. I pray you remove me and allow the reader to know you alone are the author. Amen
God bless you today.
My friend my beloved in Christ I’d like to talk today about the famine in the land that is specific to choosing one’s path. My beloved in Christ I know that you are familiar with
John 3:16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life [John 3:16].
It is a choice for us to believe in Jesus Christ, it is a choice for us to believe that God would send a Savior into this world so that you and i could have a relationship with God. It is a choice to believe in Jesus, that He is the son of God. I get it that this can defy logic according to man. Belief in Christ is a very personal choice. One that requires us to come to a place where childlike faith takes on a very mature and wise approach to life. How can we come to know and trust this life by only seeing what is available by the physical eye? What factors of choice do you contemplate to then submit your life to God? My beloved, by faith, yes indeed by faith.
We are people who through our world view start life living by all of the various life inputs we received as we were growing up. That being said each of us grew to understand our own unique preferences in life. Those preferences now lead us to how we make choices and decisions. Some of those choices and decisions are based on bias. Some of those choices and decisions are based on fear. Some of those choices and decisions are based on culture, some choices and decisions are based on race some choices and decisions are based on as I mentioned the inputs we received along the way. My beloved and my friend in Christ to choose what one believes or choices we make for that matter have so many variables that there could be a discussion on choice that would take quite a length of time to even begin to explain.
How we choose and what we choose are based on many factors, which include personal experiences, bias, aversion, winning, preference, availability, and many other life needs/factors. It is in my heart to tell you that we are living in times that life’s choices have shifted. All within your lifetime. Your worldview that you may have had five years ago, 10 to 20 years ago, 30 to 40 years ago, 40 to 50 years ago, and even beyond are being challenged. Why? My beloved and my friend technology and the world has changed how we interact with one another. It has opened up a new worldviews and social interactions, and access to all kinds of information that weren’t available a generation or two ago and my friend it is “clashing”. It will continue to clash all because of factors of choice.
I will tell you that you must become anchored in this life. The reason this becomes very important is very simple. You my beloved and my friend must be able to navigate through all of the information and choices you are confronted by and decide. Without having an anchor, without having an established standard, you are prone to believe whatever “sounds” good to you at the time. This leads to choices. There are so many reasons that we make choices so so so many. Where ever your inputs originate you are inundated by those choices people make to “communicate to you”. Some of those communications people will align themselves towards, others you will reject. My point my beloved my friend in Christ is to bring you back to a place where your choices of life are based on what is true. I offer to your Galatians 5:22-23 which says, “22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”.
I am asking you to see beyond the physical self and look at choices that not only support the physical person but also builds your spiritual self. Each of us come from different places in the physical sense of our being. However, the same is not true of our spiritual self. We all have God the Father. One who does not change… Whose Word remains true. Yo’ Rev where can I start?
It starts with you allowing a Savior to come into your life. This my friend in the gospel allows you to build upon a foundation where you can further wrestle with the logic inputted by this world to come to a successful choice in life. My friend and my beloved in Christ which one of us thinks for a moment that we can out think God?
What a wonderful act of a loving God. He didn't have to do this but my beloved in Christ He did. He made a choice to allow us to continue to have a relationship with Him. I will always remain in awe just thinking about a God who has the power to speak life and creation into existence. Just thinking of the Word makes me think about the precious relationship with Christ. I know there is a lot that goes on. My beloved… in these times of life… let me ask you to pause and reflect on choices for life. I will pause here and pick this up as a part two to this message next week. For now my friend, no matter what you have previously chosen for yourself… start today to make the choices in life that move you towards and beyond the path God has for you. Yep it’s a choice. For those who think life is stacked against you… that choice in thinking excludes the fact you serve a mighty God. Continue to change the world through Christ.
Blessings,
Rev. Rod
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