Decisions are like getting on a bus. I have gotten lost before and got on the wrong bus in a strange city. It looked right, it had a lot of people on it, it felt right but it got me to wrong place. I had good intentions, I wasn’t a bad person but I took the wrong bus. I learned that day that you can’t get to the right place by getting on the wrong bus. You cannot reach your destiny by making wrong decisions. You end up where your decisions take you, and often times that is not where you want to be. You can control where you end up and it is based on what decisions you make. Don’t CHOOSE the things that are easy, CHOOSE the things that get you to where you need to go.
If someone offends or hurts your feelings here is one way that you can deal with it:
Your choices determine how your day goes, what situations you find yourself in, if you have a smile on your face or not and ultimately where you spend eternity. How will you CHOOSE?
“…I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore CHOOSE life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey His voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto Him: for He is thy life, and the length of thy days…” Deuteronomy 30:19b-20a.
If someone offends or hurts your feelings here is one way that you can deal with it:
- CHOOSE to tell people all about it.
- CHOOSE to join my sympathizers as they also begin to think less of my offender
- CHOOSE to join my now gang of sympathizers in speaking negatively about my offender.
- CHOOSE to join my sympathizers as I go in all-out victim mode in telling others about the offense; further spreading the negativity.
- CHOOSE to cause others to sin by creating division in relationships.
- CHOOSE to make myself and others upset and angry by re-hashing the details of the offense over and over and over again with no resolve.
- CHOOSE to directly, knowingly and willfully disobey God's Word by reacting according to the flesh rather than submitting to the spirit.
- CHOOSE to directly, knowingly and willfully assist and empower others to disobey God's Word as well.
- CHOOSE to go directly to God in prayer. This is using action instead of reaction.
- CHOOSE to listen while He gives me this better perspective called truth. My enemy is not of flesh and blood but of principalities and powers of darkness in high places.
- CHOOSE to feel peace. The need to vent and tell others is gone!
- CHOOSE to go to this person quickly if I have any lingering issues and go in humble submission wanting resolve and with a forgiving spirit.
- CHOOSE to honor God by valuing unity over the very temporary pleasure of gossiping and attention-getting.
- CHOOSE to give mercy and grace with the same abundance that God gives mercy and grace.
- CHOOSE to value my neighbor and love them as myself. I will guard my heart from any bitterness or resentment.
- CHOOSE to live by the standards set forth in the Bible as a way of life.
Additionally:
- CHOOSE to love.
- CHOOSE to speak life into my circumstances.
- CHOOSE to not wear my feelings on my sleeve and to let the little things go.
- CHOOSE to live my life with a forgiving heart.
- CHOOSE to be a light to others by how I live and by every word that comes out of my mouth.
- CHOOSE to have a mind of Christ.
- CHOOSE to live everyday equipped with the Armor of God
- CHOOSE to love people more than myself.
- CHOOSE to see the best in people and not the worst
- CHOOSE to see the positive in every situation
- CHOOSE the best life for me and my family
- CHOOSE to be happy and free
- CHOOSE to be open and honest
- CHOOSE to have the heart of God
- CHOOSE to live the way that God intended me to live.
Your choices determine how your day goes, what situations you find yourself in, if you have a smile on your face or not and ultimately where you spend eternity. How will you CHOOSE?
Adjust that Crown
Jonna
