"Choose you this day whom you will serve...as for me and my house we will serve the Lord."  Joshua 24:15

Life choices can be similar to a menu. You look at the different things available to you and decide what you will order. We make choices everyday.

At school we choose who we will hang around with or talk to. How we will listen and do our work. The choices we make can affect other areas of our lives.

Sometimes decisions can be difficult. If you had a choice to eat and apple or a handful of jelly bellies what would you choose? We may want to choose the jelly bellies because they have a greater appeal to us, but we must weigh the choice we make against the results of that choice. Obviously the apple would be a wiser choice with better effects on our health.

Naman the leper had a choice to make. He had to decide if he wanted to go do what the prophet of God showed him and be healed or return home in anger and pride over the way he was told to be healed. He made the right choice. He obeyed the prophet of God and was healed.

Jesus had a very difficult choice to make while he was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane. He had to choose to either go to the cross and suffer horribly, knowing the long term effect would be the salvation of billions of souls, or call the angels down and change his mind and decide to let all those souls perish to spare him the agony he was about to face.  He thought of you and I and made a choice based on sacrificial love. I am so thankful he did.

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