When I was growing up one thing that I remember from my childhood was going to the grocery store with my mom. It is quite a task to take a child to store and especially where there is food and even worse when there is candy. Every time without fail I would ask for some candy bar or chips or just something that I wanted, Well without fail the reply I would receive from my mom was not today. At the beginning I would think that there was hope in this statement thinking that next time I would ask I might just get what I wanted. Trip after trip to the grocery store would soon prove that not today meant never. As a young kid I never understood the budget was tight and we had to get the needs not the wants but my little heart would break knowing I wasn't going to get the candy. The Parallel is that our Father in Heaven asks us to choose Him everyday. He knows we are busy with things that we label as a priority, but unlike me as a young kid with the candy, He knows that it is for our good. It seems as though we, like my mother at the store, give the reply not today. The danger is that this becomes our reply daily and we get in the habit of thinking we are doing whats right when really He who provides true happiness is left out of our lives. Still our Father is there and day after day He offers us the choice, knowing that it will lead to our eternal happiness. As the scriptures often say, "His hand is stretched out still". The question is today who will I choose?