There are so very many things you can choose to do over the course of your life from career choices to partner choices to just about any area one can think of. Life is full of options and choices, and as we all know from first hand experience, choices have consequences. Generally that particular phrase of “choices have consequences” follows the decision to make a bad choice. We rarely see it used when we’ve made a good choice and things have turned out well.
We also make choices that are much broader in nature and more about our character or the overall attitude we choose to live our lives. People get categorized as being “a grumpy person” or “always smiling”. Our choices about outlook on life can be glass half-full, glass half-empty, or glass is-refillable.
Recently, a newsletter from a missionary group highlighted the transformation of someone they counseled. The person shifted to being able to live as a child of the King instead of a workman for the King. What a beautiful description of finally understanding God’s grace! The Apostle Paul talks about this in Galatians 4 when he describes how being enslaved to the basic works theology actually keeps us from being able to accept God’s adoption of us as His child and co-heir with Christ.
What is keeping you from living as a child of the King instead of a workman for the King? What is enslaving you to works-based acceptance instead of grace-based adoption?
Just Sayin' 