Choices

Yes, I am getting over the loss of Alexander. In the process, which includes multiple phone calls and frustration, we have begun to search for a new car. Oh the choices. Buy or lease. New or used. What size?( we decided that we did not want to a small car least we be smashed ) What color can we not live with? What salesman will wear our patience thin? Do we need a 6 disc CD changer? How about warm seats? How many miles on a used car is acceptable? Does the carfax sheet really tell all? Why is there masking tape under the fender? On and On. Not life changing decisions, but necessary ones for sure.
It hit me that this should be a fun time. But the decision it so critical to our financial future that it is very serious. For example, if we replace Alexander with an 2006 Avalon our payments could range from $456.00 to $627.00 depending on what we put down, etc. Who wants to spend that much on car payments? Not us. A new Saturn Vue would be more in our range. Or the Jeep Grand Cherokee we saw with only 7,000 miles and most of the warrantee left. When we finally figure it out, you will be the first to know.
Choices are more narrow in the spiritual world. There are only two. Love God and surrender your life to His care or renounce Him. God Himself gave us that free will so we could choose. He took a huge risk because we can choose to reject Him.
Joshua made a famous statement:
' Choose this day whom you will serve. But for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.' That is a far more important choice that our next car.
Or as Moses said, ' I place before you life and death. So choose life.'