Every single day you make decisions about what you will do.
Someone hurts you. Do you get angry and say you’ll never speak to that person again? Do you forgive them for what they’ve done?
A homeless man asks for money. Do you give it? Do you pray for him? Do you say (to yourself at least) “oh why don’t you get a job you lazy bum”?
You walk out of the grocery store and realize that you were given change for a $20 bill but you actually paid with a $10 bill. Do you say “this is my lucky day” and keep the extra money? Do you go back into the store and return it?
It’s been a long day and you’re tired. You had planned to spend time in prayer but all you really want to do is go to bed. Do you say “sorry, Lord…maybe tomorrow”? Do you say “I can wait a few minutes to go to bed so I can spend some time with God”?
Add a hundred more scenarios and you see all the choices we make in the course of a day. We choose to be forgiving or we choose to hold a grudge. We choose to be generous or we choose to be selfish. We choose to be good disciples or we choose to be lazy ones.
Hopefully most of those decisions we make are good ones, but there will undoubtedly be some bad ones mixed in as well. Those are the ones where we need to ask for forgiveness and need to resolve to change. That need for improvement…every day…is what the idea of daily conversion is about.
