The prologue: Sally hasn’t had the best luck with finding a job in her hometown. She’s either overqualified or just not quite what they’re looking for. Making it in this business is, after all, luck of the draw – or so they saying goes. So she decides the best thing to do is move away, start fresh, and see what life has to offer. A few months after having settled in, she meets Bob. He’s not at all what she’d been looking for, but he was quite possibly what had been missing in her life. Little did she know the road ahead would be so bumpy and what she learns along the way could save or cost her life.

Sounds like a typical scenario in a movie where the protagonist ends up wishing they’d never met the antagonist, right? This is probably the only true case in life where the person doesn’t have a choice – solely because it’s in the script.

Those of us who live in the real world, though, must face that at every given opportunity, we do have the freedom of choice. We tend to not want to acknowledge it, even if the choices to be made seem like really great ones. If you love butter pecan ice cream and pecan pie, but you can only have one, you could surely feel pressured to the point that it feels as though you “had no choice” but to pick that one. But what about when you happen to be in a financial bind and you have to choose which bills to pay and which to set aside? Probably a harder decision to make, but one still must be made.

The fact of the matter is, no matter how hard we try to deny it, we do have the freedom of choice. We may not always like the options set before us, but we do get to choose. And no matter how we choose, rewards or consequences will follow. Good or bad, results will take place. For those of us who believe in the Bible, we know that even Adam and Eve had the freedom of choice. While God told them they weren’t allowed to eat from a certain tree, He never moved it from their presence (Genesis 2:15). And while many want to hold Eve’s feet to the fire for ‘giving’ Adam some of the fruit after she ate it, Adam made the choice to eat it (Genesis 3:6).

So what to think about Sally’s situation? Unlike the movies, we are not confined to a script. Our choices are not made for us, but options are laid out before us. Wishing we’d never done anything leads to just that, wishful thinking. We can waste a lot of energy wishing we never met someone, never took that job offer, never turned down that dinner invite, never had that last slice of pizza, and the list goes on and on. We end up at the place of ‘wishing we never’ because we chose to do whatever it was in the first place and, if we’re not careful, we can get stuck there. We now have another choice to make, whether to wallow in our misery, to beat ourselves up over what did or didn’t happen, or to pick up where we are and move forward. We have within us the ability to learn from our mistakes.

If you haven’t accepted Jesus Christ into your life, you have the choice to do so. Don’t make the mistake of thinking you are too far gone or not worthy enough to accept salvation. Jesus died on the cross for our sins so that we might be saved. If you’ve already accepted Him as your Lord and Savior, you have a choice to keep that wonderful gift, the gift of the knowledge of Christ, to yourself or to share it with others. You have an opportunity to be blessed and to be a blessing. Choose life. Choose Jesus. Once you have, His is the one relationship you’ll never need regret.

READ: Genesis 2 and 3; Joshua 24:1-15

LISTEN: https://youtu.be/T0mImVN1E2E