The pull seems to be between the pain of staying the same with it's promise of stale standardization or the pain of change and it's uncharted challenges. When standing at the crossroad of choice, neither looks all that inviting. I shudder at the old adage "you will not change until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of change".
James 1:8 that says "a double minded man is unstable in all his ways".
That's a picture of a person whose head is swinging back and forth looking and looking at the options trying to figure out the pros and cons. The person is frozen in time until he can get that choice made and set off on the corresponding journey.
Here are some select verses from Deuteronomy 30:
"11 This command I am giving you today is not too difficult for you to understand or perform.
14 The message is very close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart so that you can obey it.
19 Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, that you and your descendants might live!
20 Choose to love the LORD your God and to obey him and commit yourself to Him, for He is your life."
I hear God saying that the choice isn't as hard as I am making it. The message is really in my heart. God is drawing a line in the sand and saying "choose". He's even telling me what choice to make. It's interesting, why do I struggle with the choice? Life and blessing surely is more inviting than death and curses!
So now . . . life and blessing is my choice.
1 comment:
Oh, how well I know that struggle. Not with the same issue but it's the same--what God is telling me or what seems more attractive or inviting or easiest. I have full confidence in the choices you will make.
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