The Power of Your Calling--Choose Life!

LIFE is filled with choices. From the moment we wake up until the time we sleep, we are constantly deciding. Some choices seem small—what to eat, what to wear—but others carry eternal weight.

At its core, the Bible reveals that there are really only two great choices in life: the way of life and blessing, or the way of death and cursing.

Moses stood before Israel and declared:

“I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19).

God’s invitation is not vague. It is clear, urgent, and personal. Every choice we make leads us toward one of those two paths.

The Original Choice

Our first parents, Adam and Eve, were also confronted with this reality. In the Garden of Eden, God set before them the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:16–17). One symbolized eternal blessing and fellowship with God; the other, disobedience and death. Their decision still echoes through history. Because of their wrong choice, pain, suffering, and mortality entered the human story (Romans 5:12).

Choices matter. And loss is always inherent in making a choice. Death itself is the ultimate loss if we choose unwisely.

The World’s Options

The world dazzles us with an endless buffet of paths. Careers in medicine, business, politics, sports, entertainment, or technology all promise fulfillment. These are not wrong in themselves, but they can distract us from the deeper question: What is your life truly for? Popularity, wealth, and prestige may seem like common choices, but they are not the highest calling.

Every decision in life is a sacrifice of one possibility in favor of another. Saying “yes” to one path is saying “no” to a hundred others. The moment we decide, we bury a hundred other lives we might have lived. That is why God urges us to choose life—to prioritize His Kingdom above all else:

"But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you" (Matthew 6:33).

Called to Become

Becoming is a choice. To live is not just to exist—it is to choose the path of transformation, the path of becoming the person God designed us to be. The Bible gives us inspiring examples of young people who made this choice early in life:

▪️Joseph, who suffered in the hands of his brothers at a young age, resisted temptations in a foreign land, became a recognized leader in Egypt, saving his family (Genesis 39).

▪️Samuel, who heard God’s call as a boy and served faithfully as a prophet (1 Samuel 3).

▪️David, chosen as a shepherd youth to be king over all Israel (1 Samuel 16).

▪️Daniel, who refused to defile himself with the king’s food, served God faithfully while in exile in Babylon (Daniel 1:8).

▪️Timothy, a young minister instructed by Paul not to let anyone despise his youth. Even at a young age, Timothy too showed faithfulness to the gospel of Christ (1 Timothy 4:12).

Their decisions were not without cost. They endured trials, rejection, and hardship. Yet their sacrifices opened the way for God’s greater purpose.

The Cost of Choice

Every freedom comes with a price tag. Yes, you are free to shape your life—but never without sacrifice. The real question is not just “What do you want?” but “What are you willing to lose in order to have it?”

The act of living is an endless negotiation between what we hold onto and what we must let go of. Trials teach us this truth. Loss often walks beside us, yet it is not without purpose. What we give up makes room for what God intends us to gain. Jesus Himself said:

“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it” (Matthew 16:25).

Choose Wisely, Choose Life

Paul reminded young believers: “God has called us to holiness” (1 Thessalonians 4:7) and “You are not your own, for you were bought at a price” (1 Corinthians 6:19–20). The greatest calling is not into a career, but into the Kingdom of God. That is why Jesus promises: “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).

Every step into the future is the burial of another possible past. But when you choose God, you are not just burying possibilities—you are sowing seeds of eternal life. Choose wisely, and bloom into God's Kingdom!

Rh.