Choices!!!!

I would love to share a testimony before I proceed with this message. When I wrote this I thought I was only writing just to write. But when I went to church the following Sunday, lo and behold the Lord showed up right on time as I began to question if He was the one speaking to me. Our Pastor preached about "Choices" basically summing up exactly what I wrote about. Talk about confirmation huh? It blew my mind, and all I can say is that God is good!

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The thing about choices is that the consequences rest on the person who makes them. Just like how God has given us the choice to pick to serve Him or the world. As human beings we often don't think before we act rather we react based on our current emotion. But the thing about emotions is that, it’s a thing of the mind. It’s usually the state of our flesh at a particular moment, and it will pretty much deceive us. We have a choice however to either react based on our flesh or act as Jesus would. 

Sadly we often pick our flesh because it’s almost like an immediate response to situations. You might ask, but why do we do that? Well it’s because we have become so use to acting off the first emotion to pops to our heads. When we aren't always operating in our spirit man we are usually in our flesh man mode, this causes us to respond to situations like we are a part of this world. Romans 12:2 says to not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

This relates to choices in the sense that if we are constantly operating in our spirit man our thoughts would be occupied with the things of the spirit. Take for example when you hang around someone all the time, you begin to act and think alike consciously or subconsciously. If we are constantly operating in our spirit man we would begin to function just as the spirit man would. Our first reaction when situations then arise wouldn't be based on our flesh but based on the spirit man which is the Holy Spirit. Remember that God the father, the son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit are one!  

I have learnt that as human beings we like to make excuses and blame everyone else for the way we act and not take any responsibility. But truth is no one can force you to do anything without you giving your consent. So I challenge us as the body of Christ to not feed into our emotions but our Spirit man. To be able to operate in the spirit man mode we have to read our word, be in constant communication with God, and ask Him to help us make a consistent CHOICE to die to our flesh daily. If we don't do these things it will be easier to suppress/ignore the voice of our spirit man, and when faced with situations which require us to make a choice we will make it based of the first emotion which isn't always in accordance with the spirit (lets’ be honest) and/or our flesh. Whatever we expose ourselves to the most will influence our behavior, so rather than regret our decision later lets follow just as the Spirit leads.

******If you want to read about more about the Holy Trinity (God the father. Son, and Holy spirit) and/or what the Holy spirit is meant to do please reference these verses:

Matthew 28:19

Romans 8:14-16

Galatians 4:6-7