DAILY CHOICE

I like to call our relationship with God a spiritual journey because, as with any relationship, it isn’t a one-time event. It’s a lifelong journey. And, in order to keep it fresh, it demands making the right choices…daily.

Lately, I’ve been thinking of it this way. Being born again, or from above, needs to be a daily experience. Yes, there is a first time…that moment where we acknowledge our guilt and need, place our full faith in Christ and experience the new birth. But, our relationship with God today cannot be based upon our choice yesterday, or twenty years ago…any more than the “I do” we say at our wedding is good enough to make our marriage great today.

When we’re not making the choice to be “born anew” daily, I believe we become stagnant or dead in our faith today, (e.g. John 15:5). When we don’t daily choose to draw our life and fulfillment from Christ, we begin loving, trusting, and looking to draw life and fulfillment from things of this world. We start loving the blessings of life more than the giver of life and blessings. This is the stuff of religion, and, in any form, it doesn’t work.

So, I’m wondering. Have you made the choice to be “born anew” today? Thoughts?