7-4-07 CHOICES

July 4, 2007

I trekked over to the grocery store to pick up some green olives the other day. Easy enough task – right? Not so fast Martha. Oh my goodness, thank goodness I didn’t ask Coach Wonderful to do that little errand. I might have found him climbing the walls. There are choices! A throng of choices!

Let’s see we’ve got Small Cretan Green Olives, Halkithiki Green Olives and Stuffed Green Olives (stuffed with a nut, an onion, a pimento, sun dried tomato, red peppers, Prosciutto, pickled garlic, feta cheese, blue cheese) There are Kalamata Red Olives - harvested in November. Those must be big!? Well that’s easy to eliminate from the choices they are not green but wait… here’s some black Kalamata olives – they are not green either but they are so good. Oh dear more choices there are Plum Olives, Wrinkled Black Olives? I never heard of such a thing. Ok, stick to the green. Very interesting, Cinnamon & Cloves Green Olives, Table Olives, Green olives with chillis, Green banana olives – huh? There are Agriniou green olives in brine, Sunita Organic Green Olives, plus your ever popular Spanish, Sicilian, Greek, Italian, French, Mediterranean and Australian green olives.

Just how in the world are you supposed to make a choice for heaven sake?

There are so many choices in this world on any given subject. It’s not just olives! It can make you a crazy person trying to figure out which choices are best. There are choices that look good but have no godly truth behind them and fail in the long haul. What used to be right has lost its splendour in our present day society. What use to be wrong is now politically correct. So?

Just how in the world are you supposed to make a choice for heaven sake?

A pearl to string: Here’s where the question becomes the answer. If you make choices for heaven’s sake then the world won’t be such a confusing place. Micah 6:8 tells us to do what He has shown us to be good. The Lord requires of us to do justly, (refrain from cheating, lying or stealing from others) to love mercy, (be willing to give second chances and beyond to others) and to walk humbly with our God. (In the shadow of His wing going His direction)

Leaning on Jesus,
Lyndi