Life is full of choices, so choose wisely!
Each and every day of our lives we are faced with choices. Not all of these choices are a matter of life and death. You get up and decide what to eat, wear, and how to style your hair. Each and every choice may not be a life and death decision, but they can be life changing. What if your choice of what to wear at work gets you noticed by the boss, and gets you a promotion, or worse gets you fired. What if the way you wear your hair makes a certain boy notice you and he turns out to be Mr. Right? What if the next drink you drink, puts you over the line and you kill a car full of people? Little every day choices of deciding which path to take, right or left, straight or winding, danger or no danger, effects the rest of your life.
I am sure the person who decides to do harm to others, made many small insignificant choices before he carried out his dastardly deed. Any choice or path that he had chosen differently would have changed the outcome. I know it is not always a time of deep consideration, some decisions are almost reflex actions. That is why it is so important to make sure your reflexes are those of conscious decisions and training. The Bible says: ‘train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.’ Now that can be a very useful guide to choose and stay on the right path when you are older. If your choices are made from training to do what is right as a youth, you can make life choices much easier. “I wasn’t brought up that way,” is your concern now. Well, Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the life.” His Word (the Bible) is a clear, and easy road map to follow, on the road of life. It can make taking the right path much easier if you have the map!
As parents the quote, “Raise up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it,” hits very close to home. As a mother often wondered how old they would have to be before they got back on that path. It is our job to train them when they are young and then put our trust in God to keep them on the right path as they get older. Stay vigilant in training and in prayer!
We as writers are faced with multiple-choices when establishing our plot and characters. Each and every choice will change the dynamics of the story. That is why we always choose wisely.
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Psalm 16:11
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew 7:13-14