Growing Faith
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We Are Always Faced With Choices Destinations depend on the decisions we must make.
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ife is a result of all the choices you make.” That’s something my mom said while we were talking on the phone one day. She continued speaking for a few moments, then stopped. “Hey, that was pretty good advice, wasn’t it?” Of course, I agreed. It was good advice. Right now I have to make a lot of choices. I have one more year of college. Knowing I need to figure out where I want to live and work in 365 days makes that amount of time feel a lot shorter than it 30
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is. My mom’s comment is in the back of my mind as I realize that now is the time I will make some of the most important choices of my life. There are a lot of people in the Bible who were faced with big decisions. Learning about Bible characters helps us learn about ourselves. One of my favorite stories in the Bible takes place within only four verses. Jesus is hanging on the cross, surrounded by soldiers and other onlookers who are there primarily just to see Him, despite the two
criminals hanging by His side. One of the men on a nearby cross makes fun of Jesus for not saving Himself and them. But the other says, “We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong” (Luke 23:41, NIV). Then he turns to speak with Jesus and says, “Remember me when you come into your kingdom” (verse 42, NIV). In this story two men have a lot in common. They made some bad choices because those had caused them both to be cruciIllustration: Xuan Le
