What Choice?

Prayer – Lord, help me to make good choices—beginning with today. What can I do for You today?

Finally Abram said to Lot, "Let's not allow this conflict to come between us or our herdsmen. After all, we are close relatives! The whole countryside is open to you. Take your choice of any section of the land you want, and we will separate. If you want the land to the left, then I'll take the land on the right. If you prefer the land on the right, then I'll go to the left." Genesis 13:8-9 NLT (Underlined for emphasis.)

 

Meditate.  Make a choice.

 

We make choices every day from the moment we wake up until we close our eyes and try to go to sleep. Have you ever considered or actually counted how many choices you make every day? Too many choices. Of course, the biggest choice of our lives is choosing to have Jesus as our Savior. He gave up so much to be the sacrificial lamb for the sins of mankind. That was the Heavenly Father’s plan from the beginning. The greatest love than anyone can experience is God’s love. Good choice.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. John 3:16-17 NKJV

When I began to look at “choices” in the Bible, I found that “choice” applied most often to men, servants, sheep, goats, chariots, food, plants or trees, as well as silver and gold. In the focus scripture above for today Abram gives his nephew a choice of land. Their combined household were having conflicts and taking up too much space together, so Abram wanted to divide the groups. Lot chose the lush Jordan area, so Abram and his household went to the land of Canaan—which became the “Promised Land” that God had promised. That turned out to be a good choice for Abram and his family…and generations to come—and even today to the nation of Israel. God had a plan. He made the choice.

Will you choose God’s way? Will you choose to serve Him?

 

Verse of Salvation ~ "For so the Lord has commanded us: 'I have set you as a light to the Gentiles, That you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth.' " Acts 13:47 NKJV

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