Choosing Faithfulness

 

“I have chosen the way of faithfulness…”

—Psalm 119:30a

The pathway of life seems to have many twists and turns. At almost any point along the road of our lives we may come to a fork. One branch in the road leads off to the left. The other branch leads off to the right. Sometimes another branch leads straight ahead. Occasionally, the road may seem to end with a “U-Turn” sign blocking our way and forcing us to turn around and retrace our steps.

Unless we’ve decided to just skip merrily along the pathway of our lives unconcerned about taking the correct turn, we must frequently ask ourselves which fork in the road we should take. Such decisions aren’t always easy. Sometimes it seems as if any one of several forks might lead us along a profitable or, at least, interesting adventure. This is particularly true if we have multiple interests that tug at us.

In my own life, I had three distinct interests tugging at me that arose in my life almost at the same time: radio broadcasting, fire protection, and Christian ministry. Through a series of circumstances too complicated to simply describe in this blog post, I eventually chose to pursure fire protection engineering as my career.

If we each examine our lives we will no doubt find similar stories to share. God gave us choices. And, we had to choose to follow a particular branch in the road. Hopefully, we did not experience too many times when we had to backtrack.

In fact, in the matter of the most important of choices, we should all continue to strive to be able to agree with the Psalmist when he wrote these words found in Psalm 119:30:

I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set my heart on your laws.

The pathway of obedience to God, no matter where He may lead us, offers the very best of life that we can experience. This day, let’s recommit our lives to following God’s leading. Why? Because: “Following God’s leading allows us to honor Him with our obedience.” That’s my key sentence for this blog post. “Following God’s leading allows us to honor Him with our obedience.”

And, after all God has done for us, honoring Him with our obedience should be something we really want to do every day.

 

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