I AM STILL STANDING!!!!

"...I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thou seed may live." -Deuteronomy 30:19

I have a choice to make a difference or miss an opportunity.
I have a choice to speak a loving word or a word that hurts.
I have a choice to build a relationship or to destroy it.
I have a choice to be content to complain.
I have a choice to show compassion or o judge.
I have a choice to love or to hate.
I have a choice to bless or curse.
I have a choice to avoid temptation or to yield to it.
I have a choice to understand or to condemn.
I have a choice of life in the Cross or death!

YOU ALSO HAVE A CHOICE.
CHOOSE THE CROSS.
CHOOSE LIFE!

-above piece written by Beverly Courrege -

I have been through many challenges in my life time and there have been times that I thought I wouldn't make it but in those challenging times I always chose the cross. Even as a little girl, facing things that no little girls should have to face, I chose the cross and it is only through the cross that I was able to overcome. One would think that by now the enemy knows me well enough to know that it is not in my nature to back down from a spiritual battle; and each time that he hit me with his best shot and each time that life throws all it can at me, I bounce back stronger and more determined. At the same time I am grateful for my challenges because it is what brings me to the cross each time and it reminds me what the source of my strength is because I know that I cannot do it in my own strength.

The person I admire the most; the one person in this world who truly chose to live His purpose and not for one second to lose focus of what that purpose was, even though his purpose was to die so that we could live... Jesus Jesus Jesus O what a wonder you are. You boldly stood alone, facing death and not even a glorious death but instead a brutal, shameful death in the way you were treated in the final hours of your life... you paid the ultimate price so that I could live, you paid the ultimate price, you gave your life so that I may live a life of abundance. You didn't die so that I could live my life on medication for sickness, mental illness, my addiction, my pain, my sorrow; you didn't die so that I could live in poverty and in bondage; you died for my freedom, you died so that I could live a life free from illness and pain and the bondage of addiction. You died so that I could live an abundant life, a prosperous life!

And just like you Jesus, I choose to follow my destiny, the one that was set out for me before I was even born! I praise God that I am able to choose life, to choose to live the purpose for which I was created!