Door Number One

Do you remember the game show “Let’s Make a Deal?” I used to watch that all the time when I was a kid. I’m not sure why, but I liked it.

Maybe it was the crazy costumes contestants wore. But I think it had to do more with watching the agony in which participants would go through in making a decision over whether to take what was behind door number one or door number two.

Why is it so hard for us to sometimes make choices?

I just finished a book by John Maxwell called The Choice is Yours. The following was written in his introduction:

Life is a matter of choices. What will you do for your career? Whom will you marry? Where will you live? How much education will you get? What do you want to do with today? But another choice is much more important than these: who will you become?

The only true freedom each of us has in life is the freedom to choose. But once we choose, we become the servant of our choices. Author and professor C.S. Lewis observed, “Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part that chooses, into something a little different than what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature.”

Nobody desires to take the path that leads downward. Each of us aspires to be something more, something bigger. The secret to the uphill path comes in the individual choices we make.

I heard it asked recently, “If someone spits on you does that make you mad?” Most would say YES, but that’s not true. What it makes you is wet. It is your choice to be mad.

So, will you choose the high road, the sometimes difficult road that climbs ever upward or will you choose the easy road? Choose wisely today!