This is Part 1 of 2 for the blog on Choices
Choice has been defined as the act of choosing; the act of picking or deciding between two or more possibilities; the opportunity or power to choose between two or more possibilities or the opportunity or power to make a decision.
According to Webster’s Dictionary, choice involves mentally making a decision, judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one or more of them. One can make a choice between imagined options or between real options followed by a corresponding action.
God created us as free willed human beings. He gave us the ability to choose whatever we want in life. From the time we are born we make choices. Even an infant is able to choose based on his or her God given inborn instincts. Inborn instincts such as hunger will propel an infant to cry or be quiet. However, as we grow, we develop the free will to make choices every moment of our lives from the time we wake up in the morning until we go to bed at night. Therefore, it is safe to conclude that our choices become the steering wheels of our lives. Our choices determines where our lives are headed just as the steering wheel of a vehicle determines the direction it goes. It is also safe to conclude that our choices are the primary determining factor for our life experiences and sometimes the experiences of our loved ones.
In the history of creation in the book of Genesis, God gave us humans so many choices from the get go.
Genesis 1:28-30 NKJV- “Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’ And God said, ‘See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food’; and it was so.”
By Lola Oshinowo
