Choices
One thing I struggle with in life is making choices. ESPECIALLY when I’m given a lot of options. While other people can have a favorite movie or drink or food, for me it’s always “one” of my favorites. Who can choose just one when there is just so much greatness in this world? So imagine how hard this task has been for me to pick just one moment that changed my life. The deadline has passed, and I still can’t decide. So, guess what? I’ll just go ahead and bless you with a couple.
We could talk about the time I was visiting my friend, Scherron, in Dallas. While attending church there, at the beginning of his sermon, the preacher talked about the huge sacrifice Jesus made by getting on that cross and dying so that we might live. It’s not like I hadn’t heard the story before. Cause if you grew up in the country like I did. you heard it every Sunday. He then proceeded to ask if anybody had any cigarettes. Seeing that I only had a few in my box, I gave them to Scherron to give to the preacher.
What he said next… I will never forget. He said, “So how small of a sacrifice would it be to put those cigarettes on the cross? Surely if a man could give His life, what would it be for me to sacrifice those cigarettes?” He told us that you could put any strong hold on the cross and leave it there. He explained it in a way that was so clear to me. That just like choosing Jesus is the only option, so was putting down those cigarettes. And if Jesus could make such a big sacrifice, His life, what a tiny sacrifice mine was in comparison. He kept my cigarettes to use in the next service, and I haven’t bought another one since.
Or what about the time the Lord saw fit to bring together a small group of girls whose desire at the time was to grow deeper in Him? As I thought back, I decided to pull out the very first Bible study that we did together. It was entitled Esther: It’s Tough Being a Woman by Beth Moore. Whew chile! The title alone makes me want to holler. As I opened the book trying to find some kind of date to see just how long ago this thing started with us, I stopped on the introduction page and the only two lines I had underlined jumped out at me. “You may be about to start something you can’t stop” and “God is up to something profound in your life or you wouldn’t be holding this Bible study in your hands.”
No truer words have ever been written. We came together and formed a bond through our love for Jesus that will never be broken. It lit a passion in me to want to study God’s word. It taught me the importance of having a prayer life. And even back then, as my Pastor preaches straight to me all the time now, I learned that we are not here to do life alone. So since 2011 we’ve laughed, cried, prayed, traveled, gotten married, had kids and most importantly grown in Christ together. Everyone has their own unique quality that we cannot do without. I love these ladies more than they’ll ever know. and we will always remember that “who knows but that we had come together for such a time as this.” I love my BSGs!!!! #wepreach
