Many of the choices you make this week seem to have little impact on you: what you eat, the things that fill your schedule, the exercise you do or don’t do, the places you spend your money, and a hundred other things. You may see a small return on your choices, but not the complete picture. You will be fed, enjoy a game, and complete another week.

But there are also greater things happening. What you eat is impacting your body, along with your exercise plan. Your children are learning values from the events that fill your calendar. Your marriage relationship is growing closer or slowly moving further apart. Your financial decisions are a blessing or are starting to create insurmountable debt. Your spiritual life is growing, or you are remaining an infant in the faith.

Where you are today is often not the result of one big decision; rather, it is the result of hundreds of daily choices. Where you are in the future is the result of the hundreds of decisions you make this week.

Frequently, I talk to someone who has made a mess of their life, their children, or something significant to them. It is hard to explain to them that nothing they did today caused this; it has been building for years. And there is nothing they can do today that will fix it. It will take years of Godly decisions to turn things around.

Your life is the result of your choices, but most of the time, you will not understand it until somewhere down the road. There are few insignificant decisions in the long run.