LIVE from the Billy Graham Library: Standing Steady & Living Fearlessly

That's a good place to be, isn't it, friends? Sissy, in the book, you say that standing steady spiritually involves making a conscious, deliberate choice.

Why is that crucial?

I remember growing up, my mom would often say, like if you had to choose joy, we're gonna face hardships and it comes down to choices.

On average, we make about 35,000 choices a day.

Wait a

minute, 35,000 choices a day?

Yeah, think of how many I just made today, what shoe I was gonna wear, how I was gonna do my hair, what kind of...

So if we're awake 18 hours, that's 2000 choices an hour?

There you go, you did the math, I did it.

All right, go ahead.

But, you know, especially for moms, we can have decision fatigue all the time and the choices that we're constantly having to make and taking care of our family.

But, you know, we look at our spiritual life.

Those are choices we have to make.

Everything in this world that the world will teach will go against the word of God.

to put yourself first as a woman, you know, put yourself first, take care of yourself.

Well, no, that's not what scripture says.

We're to deny ourselves and follow Jesus, not to follow our heart.

So when I look at what we go through in the book, and I'm sure we'll get there, but as I prayerfully prayed, it was, these are decisions that I think the world has redefined.

They've tried to define it on their own terms.

So we look at scripture and what does scripture have to say about these different disciplines and decisions we'll make? And then, You know, at the end of the day though, the choice is, are you gonna stand with Jesus or are you gonna stand with the world? And in the first chapter, we'll look at Genesis and Abraham gave Lot a decision between two cities and he chose what looked prosperous.

He chose what looked promising.

And then we'll of course go in to his wife, making a decision to look back She wanted to look to see what was familiar, what was for comfort, instead of looking at what God was bringing her to safety to.

And there's consequences of those decisions.

But in Revelation, we get to choose between Babylon, the world of destruction, or are we gonna stand with the bride of Christ in the new Jerusalem? We get to choose between two cities.

And so all of these decisions we're making, those 35,000 decisions a day, they're shaping us for eternity.