Struggles versus Choices

Wisdom to Change
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. Proverbs 14:12


We all struggle with something. Struggle to exercise. Struggle to lose weight. Struggle to make the right decision. Struggle to tell the truth. Struggle to live right. Struggle to stick to your budget. Struggle to get up in the morning. Struggle to pray. Struggle to read the Word. Why do we struggle? We don’t have to, but it’s a choice.


After you read what struggle means, I hope you make the quality decision not to from this day forward. When we struggle, we exert energy against a material force or mass. We are strenuously engaged with a problem or task or undertaking. We make a strenuous effort, to contend, or progress with difficulty. Almost like in a combat. Now what about choice? A choice is the act of choosing, a selection. The choice to choose gives us the power, right or liberty, or an option. Another definition for choice is careful in choosing, superior quality, excellent and appropriate decision. Wait a minute, whoever wrote the definition for choice, must have known to write about making the right decision.


I don’t like the definition of struggle and you shouldn’t either. To be frank I don’t like to struggle. But I realize something, it’s a choice I make whether I want to struggle or make a choice to succeed in the decisions I make. The choice will always be left up to us. Here’s a choice in the Word of God, He said I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses, therefore CHOOSE life. How hard can this be? Life or death, blessings or curses, wow, it’s hard to choose. Which one will you choose? I’m not trying to be funny, but people don’t realize they do this everyday. Here’s an example of this. Say my husband and I have a verbal disagreement and everything inside of me wants to say something back. Now, I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying, “Don’t say a word”. But I choose to say something because I feel I must. Right there I chose death over life, curses over blessings. Like I said we do it everyday.


Again I say the choice will always be left up to us to do what’s right. We can choose to surrender all to Him or not but if we do, God is responsible for us. We are free to choose what we surrender to, but we are not free from the consequences of that choice. When we choose a life of integrity this moves us into an abundant life He has prepared for us. But also remember when we make a decision and believe me each of us know to choose good over evil, which ever one it is we will reap from our choices. Don’t let life be a boxing match, struggles versus choices. Be a master of your choices not a slave to struggles.


Have a Beautiful Day