Let's choose God

Hello everyone,

I hope and pray that you have a good day as well as a good weekend.  God has blessed us with another day so let’s be grateful for His Divine Mercy.  We all have something to be thankful for so let’s take time out and praise God for all that He’s done and continues to do for us and when we encounter various trials throughout our day, let’s never forget the love He so graciously has for us and that He’s with us through all things.  It’s especially important that we focus on what’s going on in the day, not tomorrow or yesterday but today.  When we can focus on the day with whatever God puts in front of us, we’re better able to appreciate His grace, allow Him to work in our lives and we’re able to clearly see the good that He brings each day.

We have two choices in life, and they are 1) to live the best way we know how on our own or 2) to allow God to guide us each day on our journey.  The decisions that we make either have good or bad outcome and it clearly determines our journey and what we have to live with in life.  Most of the time before we gain a relationship with God, we live the best way we know how, and we do what we think is best.  That’s normal because that’s all we know and sometimes we wear so many hats that we lose focus on what’s important. Some of us are doing it all, making sure the necessary things in life are met and that’s normal too.  The only issue living this way is eventually the stresses of life will get the best of us, our health and well-being will decline, and we will find ourselves lost without knowing which way to turn.  When this happens, we don’t get the proper sleep, we don’t eat what’s needed for the body and mentally, we get stressed out from all the chaos that we’re dealing with in life.  This is a road of destruction so it’s not wise to choose to do it on our own without the help of God.

However, when we gain a relationship with God and choose Him to work in our lives, we can let go and let God take our burdens just like He said He would, we can live our journey knowing that we have someone who loves us, protects us and gives us strength when we have to deal with tough situations and when we get stressed, we can give it to God and not worry but instead have peace each day.  Most importantly, we can live life with joy knowing that we have a purpose, and that God is working in our lives. Let’s not forget the mission set by God, embrace His grace and know that His love is powerful. Yes, life comes with sacrifices but it’s good to go through some things because this is when we grow and learn to appreciate what God is doing for us all the time.

Each day is a blessing and a gift so let’s be wise and choose God because at the end of the day, we don’t have the strength to do it on our own and when life gets tough who can we rely on to help us stand.  It’s not a joke and it’s real. I can’t make that choice for you, actually, no one can make that choice for you, but you, so think about it.  Most of the stresses in our lives today are happening because we’re not making a choice and we’re either living a life going down the wrong path or we’re living life through other people.  It’s time to take charge of our own lives because life is short, and we can’t help ourselves or others if we don’t have it together. Amen and Thank You Lord. 
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It’s critical that we deal with today because when we do that, we’re setting up our future, gaining a stronger relationship with God and we’re setting it up so that others can witness Jesus in our lives so they too can learn to live in peace.  I don’t know about you but I’m tired of being tired, I’m tired of trying to do this and that and I’m tired of living the way others want me to live and not having peace. In thinking about all of what I just said, all I can say is “Thank You God” for putting Your Grace on me and all of us.  Let’s make a wise decision by choosing God so that we can enjoy the rest of our days and thank God for it all.
 
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This entire message reminds me of this verse:
Deuteronomy 30:15-20 15See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. 16For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. 17But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, 18I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. 19This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Amen and Amen.