Choice

Choice.

I choose to be happy (“more or less at peace”), to be thankful, for my situation.

What a blessed life I live! Thank You, Lord.

I may not have close friends or a loved one of my own right now, but that is okay. It is okay, because God has blessed me by putting me into this situation.

When God looks at me, He sees all of me; the good, the bad, and the good-lookin’. When God looks at me, He sees my entire life laid out in front of Him. He knows all about me. He knew before I was ever born, that I would be in this situation right now, and He knows how He will be able to use me and bless me because of it.

I can look at my life with natural eyes, and see a lonely middle-aged man, with nobody in his life, sad and depressed and with no future.

Hah! Not much good to look at things that way, is it?

Or, I can look with God’s eyes, with the eyes of my spirit. With those eyes, I can leap for joy, because God has a plan, and nothing I have done in my life has derailed that plan or caused God to change His plans for me. Not one thing has surprised my Father in heaven. When I look at myself with spiritual eyes, I am thankful to God. I am thankful that He knew that both of my marriages would end in divorce, and so He chose to teach me Godly principles through those hard times, so that I could be of great use to the next woman God caused to love me. I may not have any close friends to spend time with right now, but God allowed that because He is preparing for me a future circle of influence. I may not be young, but I am entering the prime of my life, and I expect to do greater things to bring glory to the name of Jesus in the next few years than I have done in the first 38 years. I may only have one child, but she is a wonderful girl whom I adore, and I am not so old that I cannot father some more if God is willing!

Choice.

We make choices every day. How will we look at things; the way God wants us to, or the way the devil tells us to?