Deciding for Life

SUMMARY: As Christians, we have the freedom to choose in everything we do. Our decisions should be based on God's will and not the world's. God wants us to choose life, which is associated with Jesus in the Scriptures. A decision based on carnal behavior, separated from God, will lead to frustration and self-destruction. Decisions based on motivations such as pride, vanity, self-reliance, and fear have bad consequences. When we make decisions motivated by the Spirit, we can trust that God will supply all our needs and eliminate anxiety and depression. Making decisions God's way is doing His will, trusting Him, and waiting on Him.

The Lord has given us the option to choose in everything we do. The Christian life allows us to value the options that are presented to us in life and make decisions regarding them. We make dozens of decisions daily and many times we are not aware that depending on the motivations we have had to make a decision, life can take a 360 degree turn; either for better or for worse. The key is in the reason that we apply to make a certain decision. The decision depends on our will, because we already know that God has given us free will that allows us to do things the way of the world or the way of God. You choose. The world will approve of us according to our actions, abilities, and appearances; However, God has accepted us as we are and wants, with all his heart, that we make decisions based on what He says and not on what the world says.

The Lord speaks to us: “… I have given you a choice between life and death, between blessing and cursing. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live ”(Deuteronomy 30:19). Choosing is equal to deciding. The Lord wants us to choose life. Have you noticed, my dear brothers and sisters, the association that the word life has in the Scriptures with the name of Jesus? Let's see: I am the bread of life (Jn 6:48); I am the way, the truth and the life (Jn 14: 6); God has given us eternal life; and this life is in his Son; He is the Author of life (Acts 3:15), and so on many more verses .