Abraham Maslow said, “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
One-time choices may define life’s direction, but it’s the daily decisions that determine destination.
Accepting Christ is a single event — certainly essential and life-changing. No doubt most of us remember the day we took this step.
Following Christ is a daily decision. It’s a commitment we renew every morning, a series of choices we make each day, moment by moment, hour upon hour.
Jesus said it this way: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” (Luke 9:23)
Our one-time choices are like images captured in time; they often make for a good story. But it’s our daily decisions — often hum-drum and hardly photogenic — that make for a great life.
May each decision today move us forward in our walk with Christ.
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