Not Victims

We are not victims of our circumstances, we can choose how we will see our circumstances. We can look for opportunities or we can look for obstacles. How we choose to look at our circumstance will lead us to seeing the world differently, and will also lead to a different life. We can see the world in terms of persecutor/victim or we can see the world as a place of endless opportunities each arriving from different circumstances.

The next choice you make will shape the rest of your life. 

Every choice we make influences who we become. We can choose the type of person we will become. The next choice we make will make it more likely that we will make similar choices in the future. Eventually, we will become the choices we make. Sometimes, we might arrive at a place where our choices have brought us, and we will no longer be able to make different choices than the ones we have made before.

Others may suffer from your lack of obedience.

King Saul's son Johnathan's life was cut short because of his father's failure to finish well. Our family and others may have to suffer because of our lack of obedience. We need to make good choices while we can because others may not even get the chance to live out their full potential. Also when we demonstrate our obedience and receive a blessing, more often than not our blessing flows into someone else’s life. Either way, our life is not our own, it spills into our circumstances and our relationships.

Obedience or lack of obedience today leads to peace or shame tomorrow.

What happens today doesn’t stay in today’s box on the calendar. We will feel its influence like sour muscles the day after a rigorous workout. Our lives are not a set of unrelated choices and circumstances. Our lives are strung together so that every decision we make not just one other decision, but every other decision we make. We have the ability to influence every other decision we will make in life by the next decision we make. Through good choices now, we can make opportunities for more good choices in the future. Through poor choices, we may forfeit some of the opportunities that our other good choices had built up to. What we choose today effects what we will experience tomorrow.