CHOICE–have you ever thanked God for this option He gave us and then turned right around and asked Him why He ever took this step? When it comes to living fully for Jesus and surrendering all to Him allowing The Holy Spirit free reign in us, choice is forever getting in the way!

Throughout my lifetime I’ve had numerous times when I hated the fact that God gave mankind choice. As I grew into my adult years and began to realize that all of the abuse I endured was “choice” and all the abuse of our world is choice, I hated choice. However, when I personalized choice to just me, I was grateful God gave this option. How could we ever choose Him, Jesus, The Holy Spirit if we hadn’t been given choice? The sinful side of choice I hate, the rejoicing side of choice I love.

For a long time I served God thinking I was choosing to do so by honoring what I thought He wanted me to do. As I wrote yesterday, I was really honoring myself because I didn’t even ask God, I relied only on what I thought was right. I learned from these times to take “what I thought was right” to God to anchor it. I’d also ask Kathy to see if she thought it was the right thing to do? These always helped.

I know God is never removing choice for good reason. Growing into the fullness of choice is a lifetime endeavor. I sometimes bring this out in a counseling session, but to do this I sure need to be kind and gentle letting The Holy Spirit be the motivation rather than my just seeing it and then going there. Another choice I need to be very aware of. LIfe is always filled with another lesson to learn.