{"id":1964,"date":"2020-12-11T07:19:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T13:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2020-12-11T07:20:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T13:20:15","slug":"choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/?p=1964","title":{"rendered":"choose"},"content":{"rendered":"

My personal belief is that The All-Powerful One chose (and chooses) mutual relationship rather than\u00a0control and a robot-like interaction<\/em> with us. We, as individuals, are given choice<\/em> by The Divine. This reminds me, yet again that the beauty of love is choice!<\/p>\n

I have heard (and seen) this statement countless times since childhood: Choose you this day whom you will serve. Although, I don’t recall having seen the phrase prior to that statement. Verse fifteen of Chapter twenty-four in the Book of Joshua (The Bible) says, “And if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you will serve…” another translation says if it is unacceptable<\/em> to you…<\/p>\n

My life is worship, an act of service to The Sovereign One. And if I<\/strong> decide that it is unacceptable to serve The Divine, I have the freedom to walk away, at will, no notice required. I have the freedom to also choose to return…anytime; at will.<\/p>\n

When I decide that “good” or “better” is somewhere outside of The Divine plan, I have the right to choose<\/em> not to serve anymore. And when I say “serve”, I do not intend to imply servanthood. I AM FREE. I am in a relationship with The Divine by choice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I choose to believe.<\/p>\n

I choose to serve.<\/p>\n

I choose to offer my life as worship.<\/p>\n

My experience is that I continue to gain love, light, joy and peace from my decision to embrace The Divine.<\/p>\n

What do you choose today?<\/p>\n

Be confident in YOUR choice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Know\u00a0why<\/em> you choose what\/whom you choose.<\/p>\n

I know in Whom I have believed. Humans come and go, but Yes\u00fa has promised never to discard or abandon us…regardless.<\/p>\n

Whatever your choice, dear one, I’m here. Always. Loving you. Simply being<\/em> here with\/for you.<\/p>\n

Common Day Hero:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> You were always around for the laughs (bringing the laughs too!)….more recently, you’ve been with me in the difficult…the pain and tears. Even though the miles separate us, I AM so grateful for your love and prayers. Be kind to R! I dedicate this post to you, Jibu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My personal belief is that The All-Powerful One chose (and chooses) mutual relationship rather than\u00a0control and a robot-like interaction with us. We, as individuals, are given choice by The Divine. This reminds me, yet again that the beauty of love is choice! I have heard (and seen) this statement countless times since childhood: Choose you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,79,81,27],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-choice","tag-choose","tag-free","tag-love"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lalijean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jon-tyson-PXB7yEM5LVs-unsplash.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}