LIFE IS A SUM OF DECISIONS

Reference text: Acts 16:22-34

In today’s account, Paul and Silas’ prayer had triggered an earthquake that loosened the bonds of all prisoners where they were. Here is where things get interesting: the jailer took his sword to kill himself because to him, he had failed at the one assignment he had been given, which was to keep the prisoners safe.

He may have been right, only that his assignment comprised of more than that, and to describe his entire life’s work on the basis of a single incident would have been a hard sell.

Sometimes, we mark ourselves and others as ‘failures’ because their results in one specific activity was not as expected. We forget that we aren’t the ones holding the marking scheme. What we celebrate as victory may not qualify as the same in God’s books, and what we deem failure, may fall under a different classification.

Sometimes, we are offered repeat  opportunities, to review choices and make better ones. Because all decisions carry different weights, since  individual highlights sum up a person’s life, it is a dangerous thing to capture a person’s life on the basis of one single incident or choice.

#sly