Joshua 24:14-15, “Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

Choices, we make several each day and according to the experts the average individual makes between 33,000 and 35,000 choices each day.

If you figure you sleep 7-8 hours per day that means in your waking hours you make approximately 2000 choices per hour or 33 choices per minute. A lot of those choices you can say are made from habits or unconscious choices but we do have the option to change those.

Just think of the things you do in the first minutes of your day, you open your eyes, look at the clock or don’t look at the clock , choose if you will close those eyes again, roll over, lay on your back, pull those covers up and try to go back to sleep, do you check your phone for any messages or calls, do you get up, turn off your sound machine, find your glasses, put some shorts or pajama bottoms on, go sit on your comfy chair, or go to the bathroom, do you do #1 or #2 or maybe both?

Some decisions are still choices even if we make the same ones every day out of necessity, like going to work, “I owe, I owe, so its off to work I go”.

The experts also tell us that 226 decisions we make every day are concerning food, this I think is under estimated as 5 minutes after we taken the last bite of our lunch my wife is asking what are the plans for dinner.

Have you been to the grocery store lately? The prices are not the only thing that’s shocking, the variety is also mind blowing, I like frosted mini-Wheats, but do you know you can get them strawberry, chocolate, vanilla, smaller size or even with no frosting. Mountain Dew you can’t get the original but you can get berry, orange, red, diet, and even a surprise flavor.

When it comes to our religion you also have literally thousands of choices out there on what you want to align your beliefs with, many of them watered down versions, 2Ti 4:3-4, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;  And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”

Galatians 6:7-8, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” 
From the very beginning man had a choice and choose the flesh, Genesis 3:6-7, “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.”

There are many choices we make that we think and feel are right especially if we do not have Christ in our life or adhere to sound doctrine.

Pro 14:12, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Pro 16:9, “A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.” 

Our choices we make on a daily basis should line up with God’s word and God’s voice, Pro 3:5-6, “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”

Our savior Jesus Christ made the supreme choice to become a man, live under the laws He gave man, suffer, die and thank God was resurrected for us!

Heb 12:1-3, “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.”

Jos 24:15, “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”

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