Power to Choose

We are what we are today by choices that we've made

A continuous chain of decisions and prayers left unprayed

We choose each day whom we will serve, the World or the Lord

God equipped us with a will but He protects us with His word

Power to choose

So easy to lose your direction

So easy to go back home

Power to choose

Keep your motivations true

Cause we all answer to the Lord!

Choice is a powerful gift we have a divine privilege.

God lets us know the consequence- He's given us an edge

God's word is given to us as protectionand provision

But to search it out and obey Him- that is our own decision!

I can allow God to change me in whatever way

Change me into His likeness- I'm accountable one day

I can choose the right attitude in the things that I receive

And choose to obey and trust the Lord just because I believe

Today counts for forever

And you choices really matter

Pressures of this world are all around

Habits and the old mind bring us down

Will this bring me pleasure

Will this profit me?

The motivation to obey

Is my responsibility!

Power to choose

So easy to lose your direction

So easy to go back home

Power to choose

Keep your motivations true

Cause we all answer to the Lord!

November 1985

I remember this song coming to me as I was preparing our car for the return trip from my Mother In law's house to our home in Memphis. I was struggling to discen the essence of the bondage of the willa nd believeit came upon me in a flash of insight- The dead have a will that is bound by death and the redeemed are bound by life- when we choose to sin we go agaist our new creation's nature...