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Choosing Life



Choosing life is not a band slogan, it is a matter of life and death. I was reading Deuteronomy this morning (the best way to start every day - with God) and came to 30:19 "I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live".

God gave man a choice at the beginning: Listen to me and live, make your own choices and die. We know what happened with Adam and Eve and it is the same as we all do each day. If we choose to live our lives the way we think is best and "do our own thing", it leads to death (Prov 14:12). You only have to look at the world around us to see what problems selfishness brings.

I cross-referenced this and it is the same everywhere in the Bible. Rom 8:6 tells us basically that "human nature" leads us to death and being led by the Holy Spirit (in us from repentance and found in the written Word), leads to life. The devil (the accuser and adversary of God's ways) comes to steal, kill and destroy but Christ came so that we might have abundant life (John 10:10).

God's words are truth (John 17:17), they are spirit and life (John 6:63). Living according to your own way of thinking is living as a child of the devil (John 8:44) and living a lie.

So the choice is easy. If we want a life of bitterness, resentment, depression, troubles, complaints and unhappiness, we carry on living life the way we see fit, putting ourselves first and doing our own thing and in the end, we die. If we want a full life of happiness, peace, love and abundance, we put God and His Word first and our neighbours second and then He will take care of all our own needs. (Matt 6:22-33; Mark 12:30-31). Choose to "live long and prosper". 

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