Options

  Expecting their fifth child, Matt told to the other children they should get a gift for their mama for after the new baby was born. Keeping a narrow focus Matt offered the kids Option One and Option Two. After weighing the options, three-year-old Penny Jo said, “How about option three…ice cream?”

  The Lord is not in the habit of giving people options, but it has occurred, “David was conscience-stricken after he had counted the fighting men, and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.” Before David got up the next morning, the word of the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer: “Go and tell David, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.’” So Gad went to David and said to him, “Shall there come upon you three years of famine in your land? Or three months of fleeing from your enemies while they pursue you? Or three days of plague in your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should answer the one who sent me” (2 Sam 24:10-13 NIV).