The Unseen Choices
“Wise choices will watch over you. Understanding will keep you safe.” - Proverbs 2:11
Recently, I’ve been reflecting on the power of the unseen choices - those everyday choices that shape you, your character and even your future.
These choices don’t have an audience. They are made in quiet moments, in those moments when God is the real point of reference. Usually, these decisions, they shape more our future than those loud ones. They are born deep within our hearts, and they also reflect a walk with God.
The unseen choices can be more challenging because they don’t have people cheering you on along the way. They don’t sound as exciting. They won’t receive praises. But they are in the most part of our daily choices, from choosing to eat healthy to praying or reading the Bible when you are tired. From choosing not to gossip to holding yourself back before saying something that can hurt someone else. From choosing to take a step out of your comfort zone even with the hands shaking and feeling vulnerable to embracing the unknown and the fear of judgement. They are present every single day! They are shaping our future and even those who will come after us.
When we realise that time isn’t something we spend, but instead it is something we invest, which it can be a good or bad investment, we will take those unseen choices more seriously, because this investment will shape what we can’t see just yet.
Jesus made unseen choices His whole life until the point we actually met His story. For almost 30 years, we didn’t know much about Him, but those decisions made in a hidden place shaped Him to face His future - which changed our lives forever.
Like a seed that fell into the ground years and years ago, and grew by strengthening first its foundations and survived all the seasons that come and go, and now we get to enjoy its presence, the same is with our lives.
What grows within, in an unseen place, the choices we make when no one is watching, is what will strengthen or weaken our foundations.
In the unseen places choose to remain in Him.
For you:
You know which areas of your life you need to develop good habits, like less “screen time”, for instance. Today I want to encourage you to sit down and write down all those little things that you know are bad habits, then next to it, write what you would replace those bad habits for, and try to keep track of those new good habits.
I can recommend an App called “Habit” to help you track them and also, a book I am currently reading called: “Liturgy of the Ordinary” which is about small changes that can make a difference in your life.
Big changes start with daily-small changes.
