You know the feeling when you’re watching a movie or reading a book, and the person in the story is about to do something or make a choice that you know isn’t going to turn out good, and you just want to YELL at them NO!! STOP!!! DON’T DO THAT!!! And we even sometimes find ourselves talking to the people in the story even though it is just a fictional story, and we try to warn them about the consequences of what will happen to them as a result of the wrong decision they are about to make.
Well, each of us are writing a story with our lives. EVERYTHING that we do affects our future and the outcome of our lives. If we don’t get enough exercise, we’ll get lazy and overweight. If we eat only sugar all the time, it will have an effect on our health and could lead to diabetes or other things down the road as we get older. If we start bad habits, they will have adverse effects that we don’t want later in life. And the same goes for EVERY choice and decision we make.
If we choose to disregard God’s Word and His Commandments, if we choose to ignore His will for our life, if we openly choose to disobey Him, those will also cause us trouble in our lives. All of these things impact our future and what will happen to us later in life. We can change the story of our lives by making right or wrong choices. We too often think that just doing something one time, or just “having fun”, etc., will not have any impact on our life. But EVERYTHING we do has an impact.
The good news is, unlike a movie or story in a book that has already been written, we are still in the midst of writing OUR story, and we can CHANGE the ending by making the necessary choices and decisions NOW!
How’s your story coming? Is it time for a new chapter? A Change?
It’s far better to make the change ourselves than to have GOD have to make it for us!