Making Choices

This is the season, or part of what I’m currently dealing with in my life. I’m choosing to make decisions about my calling, future, and destiny as never before. About a week ago I was burdened by the choices that I need to make in my life - choices I cannot run away from. However, I realised a few days ago, that every minute of every day of our lives, we make decisions. Choosing what time to wake up, what job we do - or quit doing, how we spend our spare time - in-front of the computer, television, or reading - and what we choose to watch or read. Everything is so important, and so life defining, yet most of the time we (or I) take it for granted. I’m choosing to make better choices and seek after God’s perfect will for my life - and yet make the decisions determinedly. This life is mine, and no other’s, and so I must choose; because at the end of the day, I’m the one who’s left behind with the consequences. If I choose to run the race for the prize (eternal) or just take the walk in the park - that’s up to me. I choose to run, sprint, fight.
I can’t live ‘the easy life’ - whatever that is to you. For me, I want to be busy, using all of my time - squeezing the life, experiences, and relationships out of the minutes, hours and days that I have to use. I will not run away from anything, but choose to take the path away from, through, or around the experiences that are not beneficial to whom I become.
I choose to run to God’s glory, the race that only I can run. Your race is different than mine, I hope you find your way, direction and passion - and use it to the full! I will not sit back and wait for life to happen to me, rather I will fight for what I believe in, and to find where my heart fits in this world, that it may unlock others’ destinies, hearts, and lives. I hope to be a light in this world. I’m in a season of figuring out what that means to me, and so as I travel this year, I know God will be leading me to people, places,, and experiences that will shape me more and more - as well as teaching me where my heart fits. As my heart sits in His hands, I know that He alone can mold and shape it to fit in the keyhole that requires the strength that is within this heart.
I’m in a war ... as are you....and I choose to fight it - 100% all out. I will not stop until my dying day, and no person will come in between me and the purpose and vision God has placed in me. I want to fight for something, to die for something, to lay down my life for something that requires all of me. Not just what I can do, or say, or be ... but all of me - from deep within. There is so much to me, and you, and so I urge you not to settle with where you’re at, but to push on for something higher and greater, to know yourself more and our Creator - so that at the end of each day, you can look back and say, today was a day well lived. I did everything I chose, and I chose everything I did. Nothing was unimportant. Everything makes a difference. Choices influence your life in which ever direction you choose. They are the most important thing that you have influence over, and they affect not just your life, but all the people around you.