What Choice?
“Blessed is the man who shall NOT walk …” (Ps 1:1, emphasis mine)
The act of walking implies a sense of direction and destination, a purpose and a goal. At the time this Psalm was written, walking was the principal means of transportation; it would therefore stand to reason that few unnecessary steps were taken. In our opening verse, this man shows, by the words used, that he made a choice: he was NOT going in a certain direction.
I believe it would be safe to assume we have all taken off along a ‘rabbit trail’, some mental, some literal, with many of them ending up as nothing but a dead end. While many of these ‘rabbit trails’ do end up bearing good fruit, how often did we really stop and look at where we were headed, before we ventured down that particular road? Do we really examine the consequences of taking off in an impulsive direction? Believe me, please, I am as guilty as everyone else.
Each one of us is the result of all the brilliant (and not so brilliant) choices we have made throughout our lives, i.e. because we choose to go in a certain direction, engage in a certain activity, or believe a certain way, we harvested the result of that choice – some good, some bad. This is a Scriptural principle: “…for whatever a man sows, that he shall also reap” (Gal 6:7). Perhaps it is past time for us to take that second look at some of the ‘rabbit trails’ we are following and ask ourselves if this is really where we want to be. Let us be diligent to ‘count the cost’ (see Luke 14:28); is the perceived destination of any benefit, and is it worth the effort to go there …
“I have called the heavens and the earth as witnesses today against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore you shall CHOOSE LIFE, so that you live, both you and your seed, to love יהוה your Elohim, to obey His voice, and to cling to Him – for He is your life and the length of your days …” (Deu 30:19-20, emphasis mine)
“I have chosen the way of truth; Your right-rulings I have held level.” (Ps 9:30)
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