Weekend Musings
Got to cut the grass for the first time this year. I wish I could say it was that last time at 629 Cochise Circle but God seems to have other ideas. We have been trying to sell our house for a year. The market in our area is not a sellers market. Ten percent of the housing stock in our town is in foreclosure. With so many choices, prospective buyers are not prone to make quick choices.
That’s the story of life. When faced with an abundance of choices we often become paralyzed to choose. Or we choose everything (and nothing). College students can’t decide what job because the options are so many, so they don’t choose any career path, they just live with mom and dad till they’re 28. Guys can’t choose a girl, “because there are just so many”, so they choose “all” and enter into a series of mini-relationships looking for perfection. Same on the girl’s side.
Multiple choices can be exciting but characterized by a lot of “uns and ins”. (Unproductive, incomplete, unattractive, unpromising, and ultimately unfulfilling.) Life is about making choices and riding the adventure of a choice to the end. But when the number of choices paralyzes us into making no choice at all, life can become empty, tired and meaningless even though the options are many.
Jesus calls us a to a decisive break with the past.
“If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me.” (Luke 9:23)
Jesus cries out that the path of life is a cross of death. He tells us that finding true life and fulfillment is only found in a daily dying to self and a daily walk with him.
That choice, that daily walking with him after dying to self, is the most freeing decision of life. It is the truth that sets us free. Free from the enslavement of life lived for the whims of our options. Free to live for more than our self-interest (we died to that). Free to live for the glory of an eternal King and Kingdom.
Do that today, every day. And while you’re at it, would you pray that somebody buys our house!
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Well said. I’m glad someone (can’t remember who…now I do…over 40 mind…it was Ed Stetzer) suggested following you. Keep it up.
Lord…sell that house!
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Jeff, thanks for the visit and post. Just checked out your site as well. Ed’s a good friend. I am planning on a trip down your way to visit Jim Elliff some time this summer. I will try to drop in on your ministry and see the great things that God is doing.
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