Life’s Choices

"What if you regret your choice tomorrow?"

With a nagging problem in the back of his mind the young man decided to seek an older mans advice.

So turning to his father asks. “ Hey dad got a moment to talk?”

“ Come in and sit down. What is it? Money or women this time”, asks the father.

“How’d you guess? Or did you know already that my work is taking me to a new town next week and Maria wants to come too. She said that she could get a job in the local hospital there,” his son replies.

“So what am I supposed to do? Congratulate you or something. I think it’s great if you and Maria start to live together, just think of the good times you’ll have together, and the money you could save to, sharing expenses”, commented the old man.

The young man shifted his position in betrayal of his discomfort at the old mans comment. “It’s not money or anything like that. It’s just that well I don’t know. I just don’t want to share my apartment with her”. Out stumbled the answer.

The old man smiled with the smile of knowledge. “So your not in love with Maria any more ?” Making the statement the boy really didn’t want said, but deep down knew was true.

“Yeah, it’s just like that, and I don’t know what to do” said the boy sheepishly.

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“We can’t see our tomorrows, but do you want to hear how your mother and I decided to get married”. Said the old man warming to the pleasure of telling a tale of his own lost youth.

“ Yeah why not it, might help a bit”, answered the boy with a slight fear that it’s going to be a longer session that he wished for.

The old man face became a little older and warmer as he started to reminisce “the war was still on then and I was off on a tour of duty on the front line. Your mother wanted us to get married before I left, and I was like you then not knowing Jesus who had still to come into my life. Well that night I heard an inner voice telling me to go to the Salvation Armies evening prayer meeting, and that was where I heard God call me twice saying. It is eternal to know him and he who sent his own begotten son, as he knows you.”

“So what’s that got to do with getting married”, demanded the boy.

The old man looked at him with an inner sense of peace said. “In that moment I saw as clear as day that the question of marriage was not the most important decision in my life, but on that night Jesus came into my life and I recognised my sins and asked God for forgiveness, and from that night on I have lived in peace with the knowledge of God”.

A shorted narration from minister Mikko Lahti’s book “ Love never disappears”,

Published in 1998 by Julistuspalvelu Mikael Oy, Kälviä.

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