“What-ifs” have dubious merit—we can always second-guess ourselves. But we cannot underestimate the impact of our choices. One choice can produce lifelong consequences, for good or bad.
Joshua’s counsel is a good place to start. “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve,” he told Israel. “But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Josh. 24:15).
Serving God will not always be the easy choice. But it is a choice that brings the kind of consequence we can live with. — Bill Crowder
What you will be tomorrow depends on the choices you make today.
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Sigh. how true that the decisions we make do so much to affect our lives in so many ways. Reminds me of how concurrence was mentioned in last sunday’s BS.. that God’s will is manifested through our own personal free will.
On the other hand this leads me to ponder upon the many important choices that i have to make. What then, is the right way out? God has been graciously blessing me all this way..through the first year of uni.. and He’s such a creative God I see him blessing me in just so many different ways. Now too, as I move into year 2, I see the Lord blessing me in ways entirely different from that of the way He blessed me in year 1, and all too fitting to serve what I need most at each point in time! How can it be any less true, that God has everything woven intricately into His perfect plan, even the smallest of choices and decisions that we make?
I guess.. the answer is all right there in the ODB article today. That it doesn’t really matter what choices we make, what we choose to do with regards to anything in our life. The most important choice that we should make is to serve our Lord with all our heart and everything will just somehow come naturally to us, no matter where we are and what situations we are placed in.
Indeed, “as for me and my house, we will serve the lord.” 
Have faith and be joyful!!
1 Thess 5:12-18
Final Instructions
12Now we ask you, brothers, to respect those who work hard among you, who are over you in the Lord and who admonish you. 13Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other. 14And we urge you, brothers, warn those who are idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone. 15Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else.
16Be joyful always; 17pray continually; 18give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
