Choices

It all comes down to choices, I have to choose everyday how I want to live. I have to choose if I want to do what God has called me to be or if I want to stay under the covers and pretend that this life is all about me. I have freedom in Christ before I was enslaved to sin and the world that my sin belonged to. I am under the blood and redeemed at the cost of death on a cross, I am anticipating something so much greater than what this earth can offer. With that said the goal is to bring as many people to Christ as possible, and how do I do that? I do that by living for Him in a way that sets me a part, that makes people take notice and maybe every once in awhile say "why are you loving, forgiving, encouraging", why do you show grace when others are angry and condemning, because I was once lost and now I'm found. I want like any person that is found to be grateful for being found, for being loved, for being wanted. Today when my alarm clock goes off I have a choice whether I will get up and shout His praises or whether I will stay in bed or in my pity, or in my own selfish ways, because I am not able to bring others to Christ under my covers, I have to live out of the covers I have to be out showing love, grace and mercy to others. I have to spend my days with my children, with my friends, with family and with others loving them in such a way that Christ gets glory and I am a witness to the God that gives me grace who loved me first so that I could love others.

Forgiven by Grace,
Stephanie Stephan