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         (Dad:) This is a day of choices. The Lord is giving His children the opportunity to make many choices, but those choices must be within His will. He gives them their choice to do this good thing or that good thing or the other good thing. He certainly is not giving them the choice to disobey, or to step out of His will and to think they're going to get away with it without suffering any consequences or any punishment or any lifting of His blessings.
         The idea of the day of choice is not that you can choose to disobey. It's not that you can choose to not do the Lord's will, to do your own thing, or to say no to Jesus. The day of choice means that the Lord is giving His children the opportunity to walk through the tunnel of His will and choose from a number of good things. He's allowing these choices for many reasons--because He wants them to be happy in what they do for Him. He wants them to mature and learn to hear from Him, and make their own choices. It's preparation for the days ahead when there will be many, many more decisions, and they will need to have learned how to recognize the choices that are within His will.
         So it's very important for the kids to understand that the day of choice means the day of doing good things for Jesus, not the day of unyieldedness, or the day of disobedience, or the day of going against the Love Charter. When folks say yes to Jesus, then He can open His hands before them and offer them a number of wonderful opportunities within the tunnel of His will. Once they say yes and yield, then He gives them many choices, because this is the day of saying yes to Jesus. And once you say yes to Jesus, it becomes the day of choice for you. (ML #3044)



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