Making Choices

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and holding fast to him. -Deuteronomy 30:19-20a

Every day we make hundreds, if not thousands, of choices.  From them moment we choose whether to hit the snooze alarm or just get up, until the the choice of one more chapter or put the book down and sleep, we make choice after choice after choice....

What to wear; what to eat; gas up now or after work; let the driver into your crowded lane or pretend you don't see his blinker; listen to the gossip or walk away; accept the criticism or argue your side; bless your lunch or just eat... and the list goes on and on and on.

Our choices say a lot about who we are.  And most of our choices can boil down to whether or not we are choosing to be that "salt" and "light" we've been hearing about in church lately.  So maybe God doesn't care about whether we wear the blue shirt or the green shirt today and I don't think God would want us to obsess about each and every little choice.  Hopefully our love for God and for one another will make our choices to be salt and light come quite naturally.

But sometimes we do need to just stop and think.  Too often we let our own needs and wants get in the way. We're late or work, so we don't take the time to be courteous to other drivers.  We participate in gossip to feel a little superior for a while.  And if we did just stop and think... most of us would choose better.

Stop and think today... life or death... blessings or curses... salt and light or rude and thoughtless?

 Holy God,
Help us to choose wisely, that the we spend our days may giv us life in you.  Amen.