Deuteronomy 30:19. “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.”
BLESSING OR CURSING. The warnings have been given – the challenges and the blessings – The good that can come if God’s word we will obey. The statements are clear – either blessing or cursing – Depend upon my choices and I do not dare delay. All the rest of life is ahead – what really should I do? This matter is important – what will I do and say? Others wait and watch, for my choices affect them too – Life and death are waiting for the choices I’m going to make.
In each decision – God lets me make a choice – There’s the matter of my will that enables me to use My mind when counting the cost – never let the noise Of all those voices around me pressure not to refuse. Life and death are issues in which I dare not make mistakes. I chose life when as a sinner, I knew that I was lost. Now alive in Christ, choices affect the way I take – To lose my life to the world is such an awful cost.
Behind me is my family, they are watching what I do - They each made decisions different than those of mine. Their expectations are, that I continue right on through My life without turning to some different way or line. Yet though some things are different, yet all have chosen life – They know what they do now will affect those that follow them. It is important to us all that they stay living in the light –
Others know they love the Lord and want their lives to count for Him.
When I make such choices may I never careless be – A lot depends on what I do when it is time to make decisions. As a Christian father may I remember they are watching me – Are children and grandchildren who are from another generation. Consistency in life and full-hearted commitment to the truth – May seem obsolete but okay for a grandfather’s style. Still I know I have influence on these children in their youth – I never want to stumble them, lest they fall for Satan’s wiles.
“O God of great mercy, this challenge to wisdom in making choices makes me consider how often I have acted in haste. I am thankful that the choice for life was made long ago and I am safe in Christ. The choice for blessing seems to have to be made more than once. If this is the case, then Father God, enlighten me to the right choices because I want all of my children to live eternally with Thee. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”