Choose for [yourself] this day
whom you will serve.
—Joshua 24:15
There’s an invisible line between youth and adulthood, where we say, “He’s on his own now.”
Is it true? Yes and No. As Christians, we are a part of the body, the church (Rom 12:3–8). We are responsible to each other and for each other. The same goes for family responsibilities.
But there’s also a sense in which each of us is on our own. When we act, it’s our action. Choices, good or bad, are ours to make. We are on our own in having the power to sacrifice, to love, to forgive—or to be self-centered and alienated.
Every life meets obstacles and setbacks, some more difficult than others and some more unjust than others. But there is always an area of choice. In that space, we are on our own.
Every choice you make
has an end result.