Choose Life

This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

- Deuteronomy 30:19-20

This verse was brought to my attention last week.  How incredible is it that we have a choice? Some people may look at the choice we are given and think that it’s crazy  - choose life or death? 

Seriously though, how many choices do you make every day? What time to get up, what to wear, what to have for breakfast.

Hundreds of thousands of choices are placed before us every single day.   

Some choices are a matter of life or death, band aid on a paper cut or call 911 at the signs of a heart attack!

So when God’s word tells us to choose life, it should be an easy choice, right? I mean if we are given the option of a life filled with blessings or a death filled with curses, I am thinking that we will gravitate toward choosing life with much enthusiasm!

The command: “Choose life” is more than a decision to keep on breathing. God’s command to choose life involves loving God. Not the grade school valentines kind of love; nor the infatuation or selfish kind of love that says, “I love you because you make me feel so good!” Rather, it is the Godly marriage kind of love – exclusive, whole-hearted love,

 Choosing life means to walk in God’s ways – At the very beginning of time, Adam and Eve had a choice – obey God or do what they wanted. To obey God meant life and perfection / to choose their own way meant rebellion, death and curses; and we know what happened – they did it their way and sin entered the world.

Choosing life means to keep God’s commandments; but we make loopholes and excuses as we rebelliously do it our way!”

We need to stop!

Stop making excuses

Stop choosing the way of death

Stop doing it our way!

To choose life, we MUST have a change of heart!

And that change can ONLY come through faith in Jesus,

Choosing life by living by God’s commands, daily turn away from our sinful self and in true repentance turn back to Jesus.

We can choose life.