FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK:

A LIFE OF CHOICES

Every day, in everything we do, we make choices. From the first thing in the morning (do I get up or pull the covers over my head for just a little while longer?), until the last thing at night (shall I go to bed or try to watch one more television show?), we are faced with alternatives. We must choose. We can’t avoid it-- even refusing to choose is a choice.

Of course, a lot of the time we aren’t really aware of the choices we are making. We are simply repeating choices made long ago and don’t even thing about them. We don’t usually agonize over whether or not to brush our teeth, whether to go to work, or what our job will be when we get there. We can travel through much of the day on a sort of auto-pilot, doing the same things we have been doing without even considering alternatives. The choices are there, though. Every time we repeat them, the familiar they become, and the harder it is to break the pattern. Choices become habits, and habits become a way of life.

But, what does it mean to walk in God’s way? It means that in all of our choices, we seek to choose as God would have us choose. We seek to know and do God’s will. For many choices, that could mean spending time in prayer, asking for guidance and carefully listening for God’s answer. In Psalm 19 we learn that God’s instructions are more desirable than gold and “sweeter also than honey, and drippings of the honey-comb”.

Who are the people who walk in the way of righteousness, the way of life? They are those whose “delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate day and night”. We are doubly blessed, for we have not only the Old Testament, God’s will for us in words, but also Jesus, God’s will for us in action.

I invite you to meditate through this Lent Season, what it means to walk in God’s way. I invite you to ask God, if your choices are pleasing Him? I invite you to ask yourself, I am walking in the way of righteousness, by my standards or by God’s standards?

MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU

Pastor Dora