Making Right Choices

Making right choices is important. The reason why I’m teaching on this subject is that if we don’t make good choices, we end up with regret. We make hundreds of choices and decisions daily. We make choices and decisions including when to get out of bed, our bedtimes, and our thoughts. What we do with our thoughts is important. We can choose to spend money we have or don’t have or not.

We can get to the end of our lives and look back and all you see is regret. At my father’s funeral, only about ten people attended, and most were my kids who attended because of me. It’s sad when you live a life and look back with regret. My father made bad choices. He was bitter, abusive, and critical. Each was a choice. He lived according to his feelings and was controlled by the devil. When he was old he regretted that he abused, and beat me and my mother. He regretted that my brother whose life turned out bad because of the wrong things he taught him to do, turned out the way he did. I looked at his life after 86 years and he had mostly regret.

Christ in your life should enable you to make good choices. Christ sets you free as a Christian from bondage. However, freedom has responsibility. Each choice is a seed we sew, which will bring harvest in our lives. The bible has a lot to say about wisdom, and how good it is to be wise and how foolish it is to be foolish. Wisdom always chooses to do now what it will be satisfied with later on. We make decisions daily that don’t make an earth shaking difference in our lives day in and day out but it adds up. What we do with our time is very important. Do we forgive? Are we merciful? Love covers a multitude of sins and God commands us to love our neighbor as ourselves. If you love God, you will love people, and you will be forgiving and merciful. All these are important life changing decisions as well.

Many people need to make decisions because they are not happy with their lives and the worst thing they can do is to keep doing the same things and thinking things will change. If you want to see change, you must change what you are doing. Every right decision you make helps reverse the wrong decisions you’ve made in the past. By reading the bible, your mind will be renewed with the word of God. The decision to receive Christ in your life is good. We make decisions all the time. If we don’t slow down, we make wrong decisions. We often don’t make good decision when we decide really fast. We should take the time to think before we talk or make decisions. Read the word because it talks to you.

Give much thought to what you say. You will regret bad decisions you take in haste especially about your words. We all have to stay before God about our choices. We grieve the Holy Spirit when we sow seeds that bring bad results. Make your own decisions. Don’t let others make decisions for you and don’t be a people pleaser; basing your decisions on what will please others. Take things slowly. Deuteronomy 30:19 states, “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.” Our choices affect us and the generations after and around us.

Life is like a multiple choice exam; choose A for life, B for death. Jesus died for us to choose life. The prophecy you receive is a possibility to you. It is not automatic. We must sew seeds of obedience not by wishing, but by the choices we make. An abused lady had personality problems due the abuse. She sat at a table with similar people and she said God showed her this and she did this. She said, “I realized what my problem is. It is that what God told them to do, he told me to do too. The difference is that they did it and I didn’t. Romans 5:19, “For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.” If you’ve been serving God for a long time, you’ve been a witness and others have received Christ by watching you. So, if you didn’t make good choices they see that too. My Grandfather’s choices, affected my father, which in turn affected me and my choices affect my kids and their kids.

In my 30’s I was a churchgoer who didn’t make good choices God never tells you to do anything unless it is for your benefit. When he tells you to be kind to someone who has been bad to you, you can say it is not right, but if you do, you will see the positive benefits. If you refuse to be obedient, you grieve the Holy Spirit. If you don’t forgive others it will affect you. The bible says in Mathew 6:14-15, “For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.”

Half the world is full of mad, bitter, angry and resentful people who have made bad choices. Choice says, “I don’t have to live by what I think or feel. We need to make decisions that will undo the bad decisions we made in the past. There’s no feeling of regret and disappointment we can’t undo. Have you done or said something you wish you hadn’t or wish you saved money instead of spending it? Have you lost opportunities? Or set yourself up for failure? Have you not been frugal and now have payments you can’t keep up with? These choices won’t send you to hell, but you just have regret. You can live with regret if you want or choose not to make steps to correct your actions. You can choose not to make bad choices. You regret when you don’t exercise and your body unravels as you get older. What do you do now that you wish you wouldn’t have done? I wish I spent more time with my kids when I was young.

Think about the bad choices you’ve made, and realize it’s time for you to let it go and stop doing it. This is the time of change for you when you say it’s time to grow up and be responsible and make choices you will be happy with later. Don’t live like there’s no tomorrow because tomorrow always comes. God sees everything you do. Starting to make better choices for your life can make a radical change in your life. The decisions we make does affect our kids. My grandfather’s decisions affected my father. My father’s decisions affected me and my decisions will affect my children and their children.

Because of my good choices which affected my kids, now my kids have a much better life than me. Now my grand kids are way ahead of me. So definitely your choices will affect your loved ones including your family. Godly wisdom is precious and should be sought for our daily decision making. Proverbs 8:11, “For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her.” There’s wisdom in making right choices. There’s no better time than when you are very young to start making right choices and save yourselves from the agony of regret. Wait on God and listen to your heart instead of doing things based on emotions.

Source: Joyce Meyer Ministries
Editied: Susan Majek