Choices

I am speaking this week at the Diguna School Leavers' Camp. The theme of the camp is 'Choices'. Certain unavoidable circumstances led to me being the speaker at the camp, the major one being my availability and 'flexibility'. I figure that the main reason I am the speaker is because God has something He would like to say through me, and that is the scary bit.

I managed to prepare the devotional guide for the week and posted it on facebook and on this blog. Now I am still working on the sermon itself, and I am looking forward to what God is going to do through this experience.

I am learning a lot about choices myself but perhaps the greatest lesson so far, is that every choice leads to yet another choice and always has a consequence. There is no choice that is an end in itself.

Jesus made a great choice at the garden of Gethsemane...He asked that the cup of suffering be taken from Him if possible, and then asked the Father to allow His own will to prevail (Matthew 26:36-39). The Father followed through on the earlier plan and the rest, is the story of our salvation. He could have chosen to take the options the devil gave Him in the wilderness during His time of temptation, but using the Scripture, He took the Godly option every time....what would have happened if he had chosen to take the easy route? Something to think about... (Luke 4:1-14)

You are definitely going to face many choices this weekend and in the year, what governs your choice making process?