Choice, Whose Choice?

We can choose just about anything if we have the money.  

You can have an $80,000.00 treehouse or a luxury vacation or just a new toy.  You and I still live a a great country.  We can even buy most new laws if we have enough money.  Bailouts and unfunded mandates are just the beginning of opportunity for the ultra rich.   There is literally no end to what you can do, because you can make more money with the money you already have.

But what if you don’t have money?  What if you are born into a poor family, in a poor part of the country?  Being poor is more mindset than anything else, right?  That is what many, so called, success coaches will tell you.  Can you choose what car to drive, if you cannot pay for it?  Can you choose what school to go to?  Can you choose where you live?  No.  That  is silly.  

Is it?  Or is it temporary?  People are amazing.  We can change.  We can change our circumstances, our income, our behavior, our circles of influence and everything changes by the choices we make.

Some will say that they have no choice.  This may be a very rare case, but most of us can change everything by a series of small and big changes over a period of time.  I would venture to say that even the person who cannot choose, the incarcerated or victim of imprisonment or severely disabled poor can still change their circumstances over time.  Unless you are in a coma and are not thinking, you can change your mind.  

Change your thinking and your world takes on a new form from the inside out.  I can tell you from experience.  This is how things change.  The people who have known me for a long time will tell you.  I used to apologize for taking up space.  I didn’t think I had any value and neither did others.  I changed my thoughts, exchanging them for God’s thoughts.  He said I am a holy nation, a royal priesthood, a peculiar people.  I am the righteousness of God in Christ.  

When I began telling myself that, our family came out of real poverty: the poverty of spirit.  I began to always tell my children that they are important, they matter, they are leaders and people of influence.  I told them when they made mistakes that they could learn from mistakes and build a better future.  I told them that there was nothing they couldn’t do with time, determination and right thinking.  I told them the Truth of God’s great love for them.  I told them that no matter what happened that all things work together for the good of those who love God and a the called according to His purpose. 

I was telling them.  I was telling myself. 

Tell the people around you the things you want them to think, the things you want to think, even if you don’t believe it right away.  Soon, you will.  Then, you will see that you really can choose.  

You can choose a better life.  You can choose eternal life.  You can choose the direction of your life and the direction of the lives within your circle of influence.  Your choices may not be tremendous power or control over situations or people though.  Some choices are wrong.  

What will you choose?