Choices:Where is Life Leading You?

When I say Adam and Eve, what do you think of?  Paradise, the garden of Eden, the fall, original sin?  The first story in the Bible teaches us many things about God and humanity.    Here's a short list - God is good and we are created in his image.  God desires to bless us and he has given us rule over the earth and the opportunity to be fruitful.  One thing we shouldn't miss in the original story about Adam and Eve is that God has given us free will.  We choose and our choices matter.  Decisions determine our destiny.

For the more philosophical among us, man's moral free agency and God's sovereign choosing seem like opposing forces, but in reality they are more like two sides to the same coin.  Remember, we are reflections of God himself.  Just as God chooses, so too do we have the opportunity to choose our direction in life.  We may never know exactly how God's sovereignty and our choosing work together.  What we do know is that life is full of choices that have eternal importance.

When Adam and Eve chose, we all felt the shockwaves.  When they fell, we were tripped up as well.  This reality highlights just one aspect of "choice": Our choices have a ripple effect on the lives of others.  The choices you and I make will surely impact our future and possibly even alter the future of our children, grandchildren, friends, or neighbors.  Remember the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life."  that's the message of the movie.  Your life; your choices, impact the lives of others.

I wonder if we can learn from the mistakes of others and make better choices than Adam and Eve?  I wonder?