The Right Choices

"Show yourself in all respects a model of good deeds."
        - Titus 2:7

"When things go wrong, do you get better or bitter?"
        - Unknown

I have grown rather fond of telling children about Superman's greatest super power, and that it's a secret. You won't find it listed on any of his ability lists anywhere. Yet, it is considered to be his best characteristic. It is the reason why he has been hailed as the greatest hero of all time. This super power is his ability to always make the right choices.

Is it an easy thing to always make the right choices? Read a few Superman comics and you'll find that even he has a hard time knowing which choice is the right one to make. We're not Superman, and in fact he typifies a very high ideal for us to measure up to. If we can make the right choices even a fraction as often as he does we're aiming in the right direction. We can try to 'show ourselves as a model of good deeds' in all that we do. The more we do this, and the more we keep this present in our minds, then the more likely we are to make these right choices instinctively and naturally.

Something my friend said the other day really struck home. We were discussing how we were late arriving for something, and his response was "well, they'll have to deal." I've heard comments like this all my life, and they've often sounded callous and uncaring, but this time I realized how true it is. At the time that we realized we were late, there wasn't anything we could do to fix it. When the person expecting us realized we were late there was nothing they could do either. If any of us were to get upset about it, would anything have been made better? When we let go of the things which are beyond our control, it is easier to focus on the things that matter. It's easier to make the right choices.

~W.C. Griffin