So Many Choices

Should I buy the red one or the green one?

What should we do with our stimulus check? Should we buy new furniture? Pay off Visa? Maybe a new TV?


Where should we go on vacation?

Should I try and find a new job?

Are we ready to have another baby?

What school should my children go to?

Should I let my daughter wear that?

Where do I want to be in 20 years?

Should we get a dog?

Is it time to move to a bigger house?

We all have our reasons; our reasons for why we do the things we do. Some people work because they love what they do, others do it purely to put food on their tables, clothes on their backs. We decide what we are going to wear each day, maybe based off of what happens to be clean that day, or what our boss told us to wear or what makes us feel good. We eat because food tastes good or to give our bodies the nourishment it needs.



Everyday, we make a hundred decisions, and at times we don't even realize we are doing it. We choose which color shirt to buy at the store, which brand of apples and which grocery store to go to.


Other decisions are much larger and we are much more conscience of them. For instance, deciding to quit your job and find a new one, to buy a new house, to try and have another baby, to go back to school etc. Some of those decisions we agonize over, lose sleep over and have a million "what if's" running in our heads.


How do we decide when there are so many choices? I can't even go to buy toothpaste anymore without it taking 5 minutes to find (and remember) which brand I usually use. We are bombarded with information, statistics and advertising. Who do you call when you find yourself in a pickle and you can't decide? Who do you go to for advice?

Now, let me remind you of a very important fact that I SO OFTEN forget....

everything you think is yours...

really isn't.

The house you live in, the balance in your checkbook, the car you drive, even the children you send off to school, none of it is really, truly yours.


None of it.

Psalm 24:1 says, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it."

Leviticus 25:23 says, "The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are...my tenants."

"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?" Luke 16:10-11

"So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful." 1 Corthinians 4:1-2

Every decision we make, should cause us not to ask ourselves what do I want to do, but what does God want me to do with the things, people, resources, etc. He has blessed me with? When you look at your belongings from that perspective, its easy to see just how many blessings we do have!