Cut the Crap

Choose love.  It has become a common phrase I hear and read these days.  We seem to do this often with phrases.  Choose joy.  Choose peace.  Choose happiness.  So I'm going to post on this idea.  I think it's crap.  Yep, I'm just going to say it outright.  These phrases are crap.  They sound great and they get lots of attention and "likes", but what good do they really do?  How much do they really change your life.  If you walk around your world saying, "I'm going to choose love" or "I'm going to choose happiness", how's that going for you?  Does it really help you when life gets real? And I mean really real.  For instance, when you're faced with an absolute problem, like death, can you really just choose peace?  When a family member is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, can you really just choose happiness?  The answer is no. No you can't just choose whatever emotion or state of being you want to have about the situation.  And the reality is, you can say it's what you're going to choose, but actually feeling peace, love, joy, happiness,  or whatever you want to put in that phrase, isn't going to happen.  If it were, the world would be a lovely place.  Many people are choosing love.  Many people are choosing happiness.  Lots of people are choosing peace.  But the world is a mess; it's still broken.  Why is that?  It's because we are choosing the wrong things.  We are choosing feelings and states of being.  There is only one choice to make that will actually affect your feelings and state of being.  He's a person. Choose Jesus.  If He is our go to, then we don't even need to choose those other things.  Love, joy, peace, happiness...just come with knowing Him.  Cut the crap, people.  Choose Jesus.