In life, there are always alternatives to choose from which could have to do with our future, ministry, career, relationships, etc. There is power in choice and this is seen in the effect it produces because there is a consequence for every choice we make. Whatever we make up our minds to do today will have an attendant consequence on our life tomorrow.
The story in the book of Ruth perfectly portrays this truth. In Ruth 1:1-2, there was famine in the land and Elimelech had a choice, either to remain or migrate to another place. He chose to leave. In verse 4-6, we see the consequence of his choice. In verse 8-14, two young women were faced with alternatives, either to return to their country and remarry or to follow their mother-in-law. Your choice in life can make you disappear and become history while still living like Orpah but Ruth’s story was different because she chose to go with her mother-in-law and later gave birth to Obed by divine providence through whom the Messiah was born.
Choices can have permanent effects on our lives and some can even have eternal consequences. What each person is today can be a function of past choices they made. Choices can either make or mar a destiny. In Genesis 25, Esau made a poor choice of selling his birth right. Joseph on the other hand made a good choice of rejecting the overtures from Potiphar’s wife and later became the prime minister over Egypt. Our choices can also affect the generations coming after us like Gehazi who inherited the leprosy of Naaman because of greed. Our choices can also attract either favor or disfavor, blessings or curses, sicknesses, etc.
To have the consequence of a wrong choice reversed, we need to make another choice that will have positive consequence. In Genesis 34, Simeon and Levi did something very terrible and incurred the curse of their father years later. However, in Exodus 32:26-28, the Levites made another good choice that made Moses to replace the curse with a blessing and they ended up with the priesthood of Israel Deuteronomy 33:8-11. In Luke 15:12, the prodigal son also made a wrong choice and in verse 17-18, he made another choice that took him out of the trouble of the first choice. We may not have power over our past because it is gone, but there is a future ahead and we also have the present.
We have a God who can reverse the irreversible and He will reverse every wrong choice of the past and give you a bright hope and future in Jesus name.
