Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 141
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Abiding Life Ministries
International
Littleton, Colorado
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I
wonder how many millions of choices are made day in and day out around the
world…and most never give it one thought just really what “choice” is really
about. Make sense? Well, read Michael’s writing for this day and
see if you have ever given these things a moment’s thought!
DAY 77
Doubt and Faith
I call heaven and
earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death,
the blessing and the curse.
So choose life in order
that you may live, you and your descendants. --Deuteronomy 30:19
Choice is an interesting thing, for nearly all of
creation is under compulsion. The caterpillar must become the
butterfly; the acorn must become the oak tree. Only man can choose what he will be. Choice must have options; it is
nonexistent unless there is more than one alternative. “Would you like a
cup of coffee, a cup of coffee, or a cup of coffee?” “Well, thanks, I will have
the coffee!” One cannot
choose heaven if there is no hell, a blessing if no curse, a single life if not
a married one, or a walk in the spirit if there is no flesh.
This brings me to my point. How can we choose faith if
there is no doubt? Many are distraught when they see doubt creeping into their lives.
However, doubt must appear if
there is to be an opportunity for a faith choice. Doubt is the signal that
faith is the other option. We need not be undone over doubt; we can push it aside without
hesitation and move past it on the way to a faith choice.
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
Boy howdy…this is a humdinger of a writing! Several facts about “choices” that many never
have heard of, much less given them any thought. Some critical “turning points” in life where
our “choices” turn us toward LIFE or DEATH.
WOW! And this is not about
physical death (although some choices affect that)…this is about LIFE in life. Let’s summarize and analyze these…
God tells us He has set before us “life and death, the blessing and the
curse.” Amazingly, God does impact our
lives in these kind of ways.
God tells us: “choose life.” That’s
pretty simple, isn’t it? Wait a minute…it
all depends on whether we know God’s “life” in life’s situations. “Study to show yourself approved, a workman
that needeth not to be ashamed.” God’s knowledge
and wisdom can lead us to choose “life.”
Without that, we can make foolish, deadly choices.
God tells us that our choices can affect our descendants, as well as
us! Oooops!
Michael points out that “man” is the only one that can make choices
affecting what we will be. And every
choice must have options, or there is no choice possible.
But Michael’s main point brings to our attention that faith and doubt
are two peas in one pod. There cannot be
one without the other.
And that brings us to HOW we see doubt.
Does it make us distraught? Does
it really do us in? Do we collapse and
crater at the onset of doubt? NOT ANY
MORE! Doubt is nothing but a signal for
us to look for the FAITH CHOICE!
And therefore, as Michael points out…”We need not be undone over doubt;
we can push it aside without hesitation and move past it on the way to a faith
choice.” Well, amen!
Thank you, Michael, for showing us some insights to our “choices” that
we may never have seen or thought of before.
And thank You, Lord, that You have promised to be with us as we
choose. May we search the Scriptures for
all Your many ways in which You will guide us to choose LIFE.
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