Monday, February 18, 2008 - How Our Choices Shape Our Lives
As we survey our lives, all of us can cite choices we made at certain points that set the course for our lives and put us on a path that has led to where we are now. Robert Frost expressed this so beautifully in his poem, “The Road Not Taken,” when he wrote,
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.
Our choices shape our lives, for good or for harm. We’re all familiar with the story of Mary and Martha, where Martha was all concerned with preparations for a meal and Mary chose to sit at Jesus’ feet for teaching. Jesus said, Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her (Luke 10:41-42).
Jesus was teaching Martha–and us–about the importance of choosing well, of establishing the right priorities in our lives, so that we don’t have to live with the regret of poor choices. For those of us who have made poor choices in the past and are living with the consequences, we want to warn those coming behind us of the importance of making right choices, because they will be living with the consequences of some of their choices for the rest of their lives. And for those who are living with some poor choices, God is in the business of restoring us and giving us a hope and a future.
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