A Glimpse....

I have seen the movie "Family Man" several times but Sunday night, after watching it again, I truly started to think about it in depth. The movie is about a man who is afforded an opportunity to see how his life could have been different based on ONE important decision in his early life. The choice was between young love and marrying or going off to become successful in his life and career. He chose success. He became head over a company. He became rich and powerful. To his thinking, there was nothing better. He believed he was truly happy living a rich but alone life. It is kind of funny how we view ourselves in our own eyes. Back to the story, Nicolas Cage walks into a convenience store that is being robbed. He tried to buy the robber down, instead it turned out that his life was about to change dramatically. The choice of passing up love and marriage would be his to live for a time, for a glimpse of time. Now he would see what his life could have been. Of course in the beginning, he fights the glimpse and complains about how unsucessful his life is. He goes on to explain to his wife how unhappy he is at where their lives are. He turns to his wife, and asks her to describe how she thinks their lives turned out. She says "A SUCCESS". He goes on to fall in love with this new life. The time comes where he has to return to his OLD life. In it all, he learns that he really was just a lonely soul searching for the next thing in life to give him a temporary happiness.

I always catch myself saying, If I could do this over I would "............" Or "..........". If we were given a glimpse of alternate choices and watched how they turned out, we would all have mapped our lives to the Greed of manipulation to our own ways. Thankfully, we are not given the glimpse of what if I made this choice or that choice. It might be a great possiblity that we make a bigger mess. The Bible says " There is a way that seems right to man but the end there of is death" Proverbs 16:25. Even in our best efforts to map our lives, we fail. God has given us a glimpse of what eternity will be like if we choose him and even a glimpse of what eternity would be like if we don't choose him. For the ones who follow God, He has ordered our life. Psalms 37:23 says the steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord. Jerimiah 29:11 says For I know the plans I have for you declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. I know that in my own life, it has seemed bleak at times. I walk with so much uncertainty of what will happen next. I know that I can trust God through it all. I know that He will carry me. I just have to stand and trust. God's ways are not our ways. God is in control and I have to remember, I have a glimpse of the road I am on of what lies ahead of me from the choice I made earlier in my life to serve God, my King, by accepting Jesus as my personal Savior. God loves me and I love Him. I just need to keep my eyes pressed toward the mark of reaching the goal of my race. So, in saying that, IN JESUS NAME, I PRESS ON.