The children’s section of our local library has over a hundred titles in a classic series called “Choose Your Own Adventure.” This is not a book to be read from beginning to end. Instead, every page or two the reader is directed to another place in the book and confronted with several ways to solve the problem or danger presented there. Depending on the option, he/she is directed to yet another section of the book. After a number of decisive points in the story, the reader comes to an ending, of which there are many—sometimes over forty!
That’s a lot like life, isn’t it? In fact, the author says that the series is all about choices, made in a simulated environment without the risks of the real world. You make choices leading to different endings, and if you don’t like the ending, you can start again with different choices leading to a different ending. Here the fantasy differs from reality; we cannot always re-do our choices.
His point, however, is well-made. We make choices all the time. There may be only a few occasions in a lifetime when we make a truly monumental decision. Most of the time, we make smaller judgments, choosing this option or that one, and that leads to the next opportunity and the next choice.
Choosing your own adventure is great fun when it’s on the printed page. It’s pretty scary when it’s real life! Who knows? We might choose our own calamity or destruction rather than success and happiness! How blessed we are as God’s children that we’re not left to “luck” or blind choice. “Who are those who fear the Lord? He will show them the path they should choose." (Psalm 25:12) We can go unafraid into the year that lies ahead of us.
MaryMartha
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Scripture quotation is taken from The Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. United States of America. All rights reserved.
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