Go For It

 

Upsize your value meal?  Hot or mild sauce? How long does it take you to decide when you are asked one of these questions?  Maybe a minute at most. Some decisions take minutes, and some only a split second  When a traffic light is yellow, do you stop or do you go?  What about when you hear a train signal? There are times we make lightning fast decisions.  Hopefully we all stop, but truth be known we sometime take chances and go for it. What about decisions that require a little more of our time? Sometimes we must make hard decisions that effect what we do, or do not do for God, for the rest of our days. He sometimes places two paths before us and trust us to choose the right path.   This is when we must stop and seek His direction. When we allow Him to guide us in these dark days of indecision; He honors our trust In Him and His light shines on our ways. When we face dark days of indecision we must allow God’s wisdom to guide us to the light.  Stop. Seek God. Pray. Decide. Go for it.  His light will shine on all our ways for all our days. Job 22:28 You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways. RSV

 

 

Temporarily Permanent

 

 Even though the biggest responsibility of working in a fast food restaurant may be asking for the choice of fries or baked potato, the job has to be taken seriously.  What days one will work is usually a surprise until a weekly schedule is posted.  You know you have arrived in the here or to go world when you are given a “permanent” schedule, working the same days every week.  The permanence of the permanent schedule is soon forgotten as you move on with your life to another job and another.  So how permanent is permanent? There are times in our lives when we are so sure whatever situation we may be in is going to last permanently.  Truth is nothing here is forever. Have you ever filled out a form that asked for your permanent address?   All addresses and jobs and friends and situations and circumstances, good or bad here, are temporary. We all will move on from this place to another. We won’t stay here. We will go. The only thing we can count on as being permanent is eternity. We will spend it in one of two places, our choices, heaven or hell.   We must take the responsibility of our salvation seriously. We can all count on being at a permanent address when we leave here, it is best not to be taken by surprise as to where we end up permanently.