Choices - Mid Week Epistole by Jim Massey

Choices
Many times in my life I have been confronted with choices. Not just the daily ones of where to go or what to eat or what to wear, but difficult choices. Ones that require me to stop and evaluate everything that I am and have dreams of becoming in the future. It is at times like this that I am reminded of a poem by Horatius Bonar.

Choose Thou For Me

Thy way, not mine, O Lord,
However dark it be!
Lead me by Thine own hand;
Choose out my path for me.
I dare not choose my lot:
I would not, if I might;
Choose Thou for me, my God,
So shall I walk aright...

The kingdom that I seek
Is Thine: so let the way
That leads to it be Thine,
Else I must surely stray.
Take Thou my cup, and it
With joy or sorrow fill,
As best to Thee may seem;
Choose Thou my good and ill.

Choose Thou for me my friends,
My sickness, or my health;
Choose Thou my cares for me
My poverty, or wealth.
Not mine, not mine the choice,
In things both great and small;
Be Thou my Guide, my Strength,
My Wisdom, and my all.

What would happen in your life if these words were to become a guide for you? Would it change anything, or would it affirm the path that you are walking with God right now.
Take a moment and prayerfully consider what these words might mean to you today. Then please lift your heart and hands to God and offer Him all that you are.

Holy God, many times we try to make choices that will make our life bearable in the midst of a trying situation. We do not realize that Your grace is guiding and teaching us at that very moment. Give us the wisdom to turn loose of the direction we are taking if it is leading us away from You. Let us hold strongly to the path to leads us to Your throne. We pray this in the blessing name of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

This has been Rev. Jim Massey. Join me next week and we will share a special witness together.