I Choose You?

Google reader is shutting down. :(( Just when i started syncing it with Flipboard.

1 Kings 18:21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people answered him not a word. 

In other news:  The topic of open options keep popping out over my mind when I first chanced upon this article a couple of weeks back. I think that's because I find myself being so guilty of many of the things the author mentioned.

Do you reply to party invitations with a "maybe" rather than a "yes" or "no"? Do you like to keep your smartphone switched on at all times, even in meetings, so that you are never fully present at any given moment? Will you focus on the person you're talking to after a church service, or will you look over her shoulder for a better conversation partner?

We worship the god of open options. And he is killing us. He kills our relationships, because he tells us it's better not to become too involved. He kills our service to others because he tells us it might be better to keep our weekends to ourselves. He kills our giving because he tells us these are uncertain financial times and you never know when you might need that money. He kills our joy in Christ because he tells us it's better not to be thought of as too spiritual.

I just read another article that uses this article to talk more about the options we have in this day and age, especially relationships. Sometimes it may be too far-fetched to even consider what it really mean to be truly committed to one person in marriage. Yet, the idea of commitment and the imagery it portrayed in relation to Christ's commitment to us... That's something.  Haha.

Even if I would meet someone who might seem like a “better” choice, I gave up that option at the altar. Marriage is every day looking at your spouse and saying “I choose you.”

The bottom-line for this is simply said this way:

Having lots of options isn't a bad thing, but making an idol out of it is.

It hard to understand but God will in a way guide us into the path He wants us to take, just by seeking His will daily. Prayer and constant reading of His word aids in this process. Spending time with the Godly people sure helps too. I can't say all these with confidence yet, nor do I have the experience to share and back up what I just wrote. But don/t ever let the Devil tell you otherwise whenever you are faced with a decision to make. I trust in a God that's so BIG that I am sure that He holds my tomorrow.

In some other news: I just watched Life of Pi online. Never knew it was such a good movie with so many meanings to the scenes that are shown. The spiritual analogies are distinct and hard to ignore in many instincts. The danger again is the option that is presented at the end of this show. To choose the better story, or the more realistic story. Are we going to sit on the fence for this one too?

Too many options, no choices made.

With last semester's poor results, I thought that I commit myself to spent more time studying, to choose my company of friends wisely, and the most important and hardest thing to do: Trust God in His plan for my life, to fully understand the choices I made in light of God's will.

That's all the ranting for now.. I do realise I have a couple of unpublished post that I never really complete, due to lack of proper phasing, inconsistent thoughts and not as edifying remarks. Probably next time when I got them sorted out. Hoping to sort them as there are really interesting ideas that comes from articles I read online (Google Reader is good to read several sites at once :( )and on books and how I tried to relate to life.