Choices!

Proverbs 14: 12

There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

C.S. Lewis once said…. “I was not born to walk a life free of difficulty, I was born to obey in the midst of great difficulty.”

When we’re given a choice between an easy road and a hard one, which of the two are we more prone to choose?

With all things being equal, 9 times out of 10, we’d most likely choose the easy route.

But let’s face facts—all things aren’t equal.

God usually has a preference of what we’d choose.

Just because the United States Declaration of Independence says that we have can have… “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”—that’s not how God thinks.

Most times—the only way we’d do something difficult, is if there was something in it for us.

Let’s be honest—that’s our most prevalent mode of operation.

Don’t we choose the path of least resistance, more than we choose the path less traveled?

That certainly seems to be the case on Sunday mornings—or in church circles.

We don’t have a vision of God’s benefits, living in the midst of trial.

Most Christians are unfamiliar with His Kingdom ways of hardship.

And let’s be sure we all understand this—His ways, are almost never easy—that’s why He talks about sacrifice a lot. (Romans 12: 1)

So what’s it going to be for you this week—easy and self gratifying—or difficult and Kingdom satisfying?