Anyone who lived outside of the United States or even outside the West in general can testify to the fact, people such as myself,

we can testify to the fact that there are a whole lot of choices in the West that you would not get in probably 90% of the world. I mean, choices about everything.

And often, when we have so many choices, it can be confusing. There is an old story that I read

this week, in fact, about how not only confusing but sometimes

can be irritating when you have so many choices.

And let me read to you part of that dialogue, and it's a dialogue between a former

Prime Minister of England by the name of Asquith, with a butler in the Rothschild mansion where he, back in the

19th century, was invited to come and spend a few days. And one afternoon, the butler was

serving Prime Minister Asqueth. And here's how the dialogue went. The butler asked, tea, coffee or a piece of fruit, sir.

He said, tea, please.

He said, China, India, or Ceylon, sir?

Asked the butler.

He said, China.

Lemon, milk, or cream, sir.

He said, milk, please. He said, Jersey, Hartford, or Sherathon, sir. He said, just a milk that comes out of the cow. The reason some young people get into trouble is because they have never been trained to choose well. When I was growing up

and my parents, I think, overdid it, went to the other extreme that you find in our culture today

in trying to get me to choose well and choose wisely and felt kind of oppressed like a lot of young

teenagers feel. And I said, I could not wait to just leave home and be free as a bird. And I do what

I want to do instead of constantly have my parents teaching me how to choose wisely. And at the age of 19 and 20, I was totally

alone in strange countries. Nobody even knew that I existed and I could have gone either way and I could

have made horrible choices. But that godly upbringing, together with the hand of God,

help me to make wise choices.

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