Small Decisions Matter Too

From the time we are able to walk we are faced with many many choices that all have many different outcomes. If you make the choice to walk away from your parent or guardian in the store as a small child, the outcome of that choice can be you getting lost. If you make the choice to go to summer camp one year, the outcome of that choice could be that it is the best summer that you have ever had. If you make the choice to put off doing school work until the night before it is due, your outcome most likely won't be as good as it could have been if you had done the work when it was assigned instead of waiting.

There is one choice that can completely change the course of not only your life but the life of those around you. That choice can be the most scary choice to make but I can guarantee you that it will be the most rewarding choice in your life. This choice will take all the waight off of your shoulders that you have been carrying. It will bring you peace when your heart is racing. It will be your light in the deepest valley. This choice will never leave your side no matter what you do, no matter what you think, no matter where you go, no matter your age, no matter how long ago you made the choice. This choice is forever.

This choice is the choice of accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

I remember that I made this choice when I was 6 years old for the first time. I was sitting in the back of little people church with my cousin listening to the pastor bring the word of God. At the end of his sermon, like most pastors do, he asked us to close our eyes and bow our heads. My little heart was beating faster than it ever had before. He asked if anyone wanted to make the CHOICE to accept Jesus into their hearts so that He could be with us forever and ever. Ambitious 6 year old me SHOT my hand up in the air. I believed in my heart and confessed with my mouth that day that Jesus was my Savior. After the service was over, I was handed a small wooden surfboard keychain with a sunrise and dolphin painted on it.

As our lives go on, we all change and develop our own unique personalities, we all go through the school, we all make choices, and as sad but true as it is, we all loose our way sometimes. I lost sight of what was important to me and what meant the most to me around March of my 7th grade year. I became more focused on what the world said about me and what others thought of me and how many people liked me and how popular I was. I stoped going to youth group and dreaded going to church every Sunday. I want through the rest of 7th grade, all of 8th grade and the first year of daunting high school with this mindset. My cousin (the one that was with me when I gave my life to Christ) started going to a new developing church called Citipointe. It is based out of Brisbane, Australia and has multiple locations all over the world. She and her brother started going to their youth group and though I might like it, so I decided to try it out. Little did I know that this church was going to change my life. In July 2017 I had been going with them every Wednesday and some Sundays now for over a year. Before the message every night we would take the time to worship and praise. I had never been a big fan of this and didn't understand why we took the time out of our night to do this. July 12, 2017 is the day that I fell in love with worship and began to look forward to it instead of dread it. Our leaders were doing a short series on worship and what it meant to worship and this particular night Jaryn Guerra was bringing the word and she decided to title it "Radicle Worship". Just like the paster 9 years earlier did, she gave us the opportunity to accept Jesus Christ into our hearts. But this night was different than the last simply because she said that "if you feel like you have walked away from God and want to come back, raise your hand and come back to Him." That hit me so hard. Its like she was able to see inside of my mind and know exactly how I was feeling. So on July 12, 2017 I re committed my life to Christ. Hands down this was the best decision I have ever made.

My life has never been the same and I am so thankful for that. Because I made that one decision to be bold and raise my hand that night I now walk in faith everyday, I know and hold tightly onto the fact that my circumstances don't define me or my future, I no longer cary the weight of my future on my shoulders because I know that it is already planned out and that God is going to lead me and equip me with everything and more than what I need to accomplish everything for Him and through Him, and I now have the honor and absolute privilege of telling about and showing the love of God to everyone around me.

You see. Just because I made the decision to raise my tiny six year old hand, it set the path for me to be who I am today and who I am going to be shaped into in the future. The best thing about being able to make decisions for my self and see what the outcomes are, is that you get to see how your one simple decision can impact not only you but also how it can lead you to places and people that you never imagined you would meet or be. I can't imagine how different my life would be today if I hadn't made the decision to allow Jesus to live inside of my heart.

Today, I want to encurage you to make the small decisions that you don't think will mean anything to you tomorrow, or next week, or in 9 years because you never know the impact that that one small decision can have on your life.