Written by Michael Kelley, Guest Contributor
“And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.”
Isaiah 30:21
Life is about making decisions.
We don’t really pay attention to most of the decisions we make – we choose what music to listen to, what to eat for dinner, or what movie to go see. We don’t spend hours agonizing over decisions like that. The choice presents itself, we make it, and most of the time we just carry on with our day.
Then there are those times when the decision seems bigger – like choosing a career, choosing a home, or choosing a spouse. These are the kinds of decisions that can keep us up at night; they even move us to seek counsel from others and carefully weigh out our options.
Big or small, we are always deciding something. But the big and the small are not isolated from each other. In fact, every small decision is in reality a reflection of a larger one.
In other words, life is about big decisions actualized in little choices.
Here is just one example: Marriage is a big choice. At a single moment, you commit before God and others to honor your husband or wife, no matter what may come your way.
But today, you have the chance to actualize that decision in a ton of little ways, such as:
- Will you ask caring questions about your spouse’s daily activities and feelings?
- Will you serve them by doing some of the chores they hate to do?
All of these little choices are just a reflection of the bigger decision you already made on the day of your wedding.
Of course, all decisions aren’t quite as huge as the one to get married.
You can really look at any small daily choice like this: Ask yourself, “What’s the larger decision behind the smaller choice I’m making right now?” (Remember that there are really no small choices. Each one plays a significant role in the overall direction of your life.)
You can actually hold up this same dynamic to your faith.
How about this question? Do you believe in Jesus?
Now, that’s a big choice.
In fact, my friends, it’s the biggest and most important decision you’ll ever make.
The Bible puts it to us in the form of the two twin towers of a relationship with Christ. These two towers, the foundational pillars of what it means to be right with God, are summed up in these words:
Repent and Believe.
The big choice to repent is that you once and for all decide to do a 180 turnaround of your natural inclination to rule your own life.
The big choice to believe is that you accept that Jesus is Lord over all, including you.
Today, you and I will have plenty of opportunities to actualize big decisions through a ton of much smaller ones.
Each decision, big or small, has significance.
Chances are, you have already made some big choices. But have you made the most important choice you’ll ever make – choosing to follow Jesus?
What will you decide?
