Tag: choices
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Eternal Tradeoffs
Hebrews 12:15-17 “See to it that no one . . . is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.” There are some inevitable tradeoffs…
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Divine Guidance
Psalm 32:8-9 “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.” Life is full of decisions. Some are pretty inconsequential,…
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The Choice
Hebrews 11:24-26 “By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.” I’m sure you’ve…
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Doing What Seems Good
1 Samuel 14:40 “And the people said to Saul, ‘Do what seems good to you.’” I’m sure you’re familiar with the saying, “Do your own thing.” Another way people put this is “Whatever turns you on!” They’re popular sayings, but can be foolish ones, as so many who have followed this path in life can…
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Why Such Choices?
1 Samuel 10:24 “And all the people shouted, ‘Long live the king!’” One of the many examples of how sin has corrupted the heart and mind of man is in what he gravitates to and what he rejects. We live in a society in which many promote the “right” to kill unborn children, the “freedom” to…
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Tragic Tradeoffs
Isaiah 55:1-2 “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me,…
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Wise choices
Ephesians 5:15-17 “Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.” One of God’s most precious gifts is time. For reasons only He knows, some are given much more…
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Choices
Ephesians 1:4-5 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.” Have you ever thought about how…
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Is there a better way?
Judges 10:6-16 “The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him. So the anger of the Lord was…
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Providence
Judges 7:5-7 “And the Lord said to Gideon, ‘Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink.’ And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people knelt…
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