Choose Life

One of my favorite Bible verses begins with these three words: "Choose for yourselves." (Joshua 24:15) Actually, You and I have just one basic choice to make in life and that is between right and wrong. This core choice will determine all other choices for us.

When we choose between right and wrong, we're making a multitude of other choices at the same time. We are choosing which results we want in our lives -- either happy blessings or not-so-happy consequences. A good choice can result in a peaceful, contented life or a life of trouble and sorrow. Ultimately, our choice between right or wrong is a choice of either eternal life with God or eternal separation from Him .

At the ripe old age of 120, Moses realized he wouldn't live much longer, so he gathered the people of Israel and instructed them on how to live after he was gone. In Deuteronomy, chapter 30, he reminded them that God had always provided for and guided them. He recalled many commands of God, urging all to obey them. He explained that choosing God brings fulfillment, blessings, and life; but choosing against God brings only emptiness, pain, and death. Verse 19 relates how God rejoices when people turn to Him with their whole heart and obey Him.

In verse 15, Moses concluded with these words: "I set before you today life and good, death and evil. I command you to love the Lord and walk in His ways... and the Lord will bless you..." Then in verse 19, Moses summed it all up saying, "Love the Lord and obey His voice. Cling to Him, He IS your life." And hereís the part I love the best: " I have set before you today life and death, CHOOSE LIFE!"

Who, if they had the chance, wouldn't choose life over death? Yet, we unwittingly make choices that lead us down the path to "deathly" consequences. How, exactly, do we "choose life?"

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Contributed byMarsha Jordan-http://www.hugsandhope.com- Web site devoted to helping critically ill children. Author Marsha Jordan grew up in a suburb of Chicago. Now a grandma disabled by Lupus, she lives in the north woods of Wisconsin with her husband of 27 years.