I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil.
Deuteronomy 30:15
We have a choice. We have always had a choice. God gifted us this way. Our ability to choose affects the way things are and the way things will be. Sometimes, we may make positive, life-giving choices, and other times we make choices that are not positive and not life-giving. It can seem to be a daunting responsibility, but it doesn’t have to be. If we choose to invite God into our lives and seek God’s guidance in our decision making, we will discover an inner feeling, a nudge, toward the life-giving choice.
Seems simple enough, doesn't it? Actually it is, it's just not that easy. You see, to give us the gift of choice, God also gave us a mind, an ego, a heart, instincts, a will - and none of those are simple. Add to it the fact that we live in a world with other humans who have the power to chose - and it gets more and more complicated. It becomes difficult to discern what is the nudge of God and what is the nudge of the rest of it.
This is where prayer is so important. We need to have dedicated time with God, time to ask and question and time to listen. Time to discover the truth about what God wants for us, not what the world wants for us. Time to realize and trust the love God has for us, the forgiveness that is so freely given, the promise of God that if we seek we will find.
Today, let us make the choice to dedicate ourselves to nurturing our relationship with God, through prayer, trusting that God will indeed guide us to life-giving choices.
Prayer: God, you chose us from the beginning and that choice is never-ending. Help us to choose a relationship with you. A relationship that will nuture and guide our thoughts and deeds so that we may indeed choose life and good.
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