Daily Decisions

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 12, 1903

EACH day the conflict between right and wrong is going on in our experience, and each day we are making decisions for or against Christ. And each decision which we make, even though it may be in regard to some apparently small matter, has its influence in shaping our characters and molding our destiny. These decisions come in the daily program of our lives. The father in his business or in the daily round of toil upon the farm or in the shop, the mother in what may sometimes seem to be the humdrum of household cares, the children in their work or in school or at their play,—all are in constant contact with influences which would lead them from the path of rectitude unless they are resisted. The enticing invitation to evil meets us on every hand, and calls for the daily decision. In these closing days of the great controversy, when there is such an intensity in all the affairs of life, these constant decisions have a very strong influence upon the final decision which will soon be made. We are rapidly approaching the day of destiny. Soon the sum total of all our decisions will be made up, and the result will be beyond our power to change. It is never safe to parley with evil, but the effect of a single wrong step now seems to be greater than ever before. In this hour of God’s judgment there is a weighty significance attached to the choices and decisions of the daily life. Let us therefore “live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world; looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” Let decisions be made each day which shall bind us more closely to God.