"Choice" 12/24/2011

In the 1980s the word "choice" was a slang term we used when we thought something was particularly "cool."  We'd say strange things like, "wow that new movie was really choice!  You should go see it!"  Oddly enough this wasn't too far off how the word was used in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible to refer to the best of the best.  Proverbs 8:10, "Receive my instruction and not silver, and knowledge rather than  choice gold..."  We can see that choices, or choosing, actually is very significant to our Father.  In Ephesians 1:4, we see that God chose us, "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love."  Continuing with the 1980s theme you'll all recall the TV game show, The Price is Right.  In January 1983, the show's producer debuted the game Plinko.  I believe it is still on the show these days.  In the game, the contestant would drop a chip from the top of the game board.  It would slide down, bouncing off pins propelling the chip left or right until it came to rest at the bottom, revealing the cash amount won.  I think in our own lives we play the Plinko game through the choices we make.  Big or small, significant or not, ultimately we come to a final resting point just like the Plinko chip.  Where will that be?  Will we be in the $20,000 slot, the $0.00 slot, or maybe somewhere in between?   Like the game, we may not know at first.  Like the game there are many factors that impact the final outcome.  I believe one of those factors is the choices we make.  Like the pins the chip bounces off in the game, our choices push us one way or another in life.  EVERY choice we make impacts our future to some degree.  It's a no-brainier that we need to be aware of this and give thought to which slot we want to end up in.  With the end goal in sight, we can choose to make choices that will eventually get us there - Ideally where our Father wants us to be.  Pretty "choice" isn't it?!  How will your choices today impact you and others tomorrow, or in many years to come?  Your future begins now.