Today is an opportunity to make a fresh choice ..for the better – as long as we are alive on planet earth. ~ Cheong Kok Weng
Sometimes we need to start taking action and making fresh choices
to make the necessary changes.
God gave us the mandate and the freedom to choose each day how we want to live it. And also be held accountable for it.
When we choose beneficial choices, things will be for the better.
We are each the CEO of our own life, as per the mandate given by our Creator. Our lives are a concatenation of choices, and actions bring aftereffects – for better or otherwise. The choices we each make when compiled together make up who we are. It is the principle of the harvest – reaping what we sow.
Choices become habits. Habits become character. Character becomes destiny. It goes back to individual choices we make and what we choose to sow.
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Galatians 6:7
Remember too, that..
God gives us a choice for a new start daily, let’s choose wisely ~ Cheong Kok Weng
God gives us a choice to do our best on daily basis, may we seize the opportunity. ~ Cheong Kok Weng
The case for Christ … by Lee Strobel. Do watch this 46 min 23 seconds clip, with an open mind and consider the fair presentation of the matter. Blessings.
Cut-off the past failures, mistakes, opinions of and people who are still shackled to the past of us as we don’t live in their manacles of their images of us anymore; for the past is no more and the new has come – a long time since. The past is not the future – under no circumstances, let them be a weight that weighs us down, for they do not belong in our lives. We are now a new person – don’t go back to the days of yore for we were a vastly different person then.
We need to learn what we can from the past but it had to be placed in perspective let it be a learning experience – do not let it imprisons us. We must not let the negative pasts have the power over us or the future. Let the painful memories go, let them be written in the sand so that they can be easily erased from our memories and remember them no more. Bring the past only if we are going to build from it. Don’t look back because we are not going to go that way again. Release the past, stand firmly in the present, step confidently into the future, with God’s help.
Our life is like a book. Some of the characters who “entered” have passing roles to play, others, much lengthier. But all are “de rigueur”, else they wouldn’t be in the story-line, under the watchful eyes of God. Welcome them all, and move on to the next chapter which God countenances us to be the author and empowers us to write new chapters afresh.
Let us appreciate and revel-in working and living in the present. Let us take the right choices and actions now and going forward too into the future.
Remember this words: “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed-door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~ Alexander Graham Bell
May God bless you.
“Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.” Isaiah 43:18
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,” Philippians 3:13
May we choose to prioritise and do the important things first on a daily basis.
May we not look back at the “yesterdays” as we are not going that way again. The direction forward depends on the direction of our choices today. May we rejoice over today and make today great with God’s help.
The truths is, some of our choices have great & climactic consequences – the actions resulting or what happens, when we act on our interpretations or inferences. It is about what we do because we have come to a conclusion, that impacts or has an effect on how we act …actions that come from our beliefs.
There is one climactic choice we made on earth that has eternal consequences, one that determines the destination of our eternal destiny – heaven or hell and nothing in between!
We need to bear in mind that the way to heaven, the abode of the Lord Most High, is through His terms, not ours.
“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?” John 11:25-26
“I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.” John 10:9-11
“No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.” John 10:18a
Choices made follow us – it has the power to alter
our individual compass, such is the power of choices that
God has empowered it together with free will.
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. ” Proverbs 18:21
“The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.” Proverbs 14:27
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:23
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16
God gives us Today. Therefore today when
we wake up, it is another day and chance to get
it right. Let yesterday’s regret be bygone and let us
focus on today.
TODAY is a fresh chance to do it right,
and an opportunity to do something new,
by the grace of God.
We have this DAILY gift of choice of CHOOSING WELL. May God help us to use this gift well. ~ Cheong Kok Weng
God gave us the responsibilities for writing on the pages and chapters of the book of our lives – through the power of daily choices translated into actions.
By the way – “in an enormously big way”, our eternal future and destiny rest with the choices we made – God gave this choice to us and we have to make the choice.
