Choices

We all have choices to make; everyday.  Some choices may be easy, insignificant, and small.  Those are the best kind.  They don’t change your course in life, one way or another; the choice doesn’t really matter.  Your still you, and your still safe from the word change.

The big choices, the important, hard, life changing ones.  Now those are difficult.  Like what college major you should choose, or deciding to love someone, or deciding if you should move out and be an adult.

These big decisions are painful, and you can’t make them with the most certainty, because there is too much unknown.

I came across this quote a while ago.  I thought it was slightly strange at first, but it gave me a new idea.  Loving is a choice we make, even accepting love is a choice.  We seem to think love is just an overwhelming feeling inside of us.  But what happens when that overwhelming feeling ceases?

“He loved her, of course.  But better then that, he chose her.  Day after day.  Choice: that was the thing.” – Sherman Alex

Some choices need to be made everyday.  Some choices aren’t just once. It seems like this world keeps making choices less permanent.  Like when we love someone, and we marry that person, and then one day you wake up and you think “I just don’t have that feeling anymore, the love is gone between us, we’ve changed.”

Choice…that was the thing.

Everyday we have to keep deciding if we want to keep loving someone when that overwhelming feeling is gone.

Everyday we can make the choice to stay asleep with our dreams or go out and chase them.

Everyday we have so many choices.

I sometimes feel like I’m drowning in an overwhelming ocean of options and I don’t know which to choose.  I’m frantically trying to take hold of this ship I’m in and steer myself in the right direction, when I end up on a deserted island most of the time.

But when I give up all my cares to Jesus, I find that it’s really not so hard to figure out what choices I should make in this life.

So, I choose Him above everything else.  To be honest, if I only choose Jesus, then every other choice I make will be with confidence.  Because I choose Him, everyday.  I choose to keep loving Him, even when the road seems long and my shoulders ache with every weight full of choices and too many options.

I choose Him because He loved me when I was unloveable.  I choose Him because when I was unreachable, He reached for me.

I choose You today Jesus, because no other choice makes sense, if my choice isn’t You first.