Life is the Best Choice

Acknowledging God

Follow in My Ways

Keep My Statutes and Ordinances

Deuteronomy 30:15-20 The Message

15 Look at what I’ve done for you today: I’ve placed in front of you
    Life and Good
    Death and Evil.
16 And I command you today: Love God, your God. Walk in his ways. Keep his commandments, regulations, and rules so that you will live, really live, live exuberantly, blessed by God, your God, in the land you are about to enter and possess.
17-18 But I warn you: If you have a change of heart, refuse to listen obediently, and willfully go off to serve and worship other gods, you will most certainly die. You won’t last long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
19-20 I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you today: I place before you Life and Death, Blessing and Curse. Choose life so that you and your children will live. And love God, your God, listening obediently to him, firmly embracing him. Oh yes, he is life itself, a long life settled on the soil that God, your God, promised to give your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

For Reflection

One of the truths of our human existence is that we are free to choose. God places before us the choice of life and good or death and evil.  The first is a God-centered choice, the second, a self-centered one. Walking in the light of the Holy Spirit is to choose life and good over evil and death. Not that God will do us in if we make another choice but that our evil action and death is inherent in our decision to separate ourselves from God. Our salvation from a life of dark curses results from our desire to follow Christ and our obedience to God.  

Having made that choice and err, God will forgive you.  You may suffer the consequence of your error, but God will never abandon you.  God will herd you, like a lost sheep and pull you closer to God's flock with our retribution. On the contrary, when you return, God will stop weeping for you and celebrate your repentance.

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