“Your home can be a place for dying or living, for wilting or blooming, for anxiety or peace, for discouragement or affirmation, for criticism or approval, for profane disregard or reverence, for suspicion or trust, for blame or forgiveness, for alienation or closeness, for violation or respect, for carelessness or caring.  By your daily choices, you will make your home what you want it to be.”
–Carole Sanderson Streeter

It is easy for me to take for granted the fact that I have a God-given ability to choose. It is equally as easy, sometimes more easy to give over my ability to choose. Reading Streeter’s words above reminded me of that this morning. Standing up for my ability to choose is not always easy, due to situations, circumstances, etc. Isn’t making choices, the “right” choices, a responsibility that I have as one of God’s children? Did God give me the freedom of choice only that I might choose, in turn, to give that over to another? No, He allows me to choose, to make decisions, in order that I would choose to be like Him. My responsibility is to be in His Word, to be in fellowship with His disciples, to be in conversation with the Spirit and with Him. In doing those things might I daily make choices that draw His kingdom closer. Choices that reflect the fact that God is by Savior and Lord.

Joshua 24:15 (New International Version) – “But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

Today, what kind of home will I, will you, choose? To what will you have others look to you for?