Choice Making Ability

UV 701/10,000 Choice Making Ability “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants.” Deuteronomy 30 v 19 God is always nudging us to make the pro-life choices in our lives. But, sometimes relying on our own senses and desires, we make our own choices that lead to death. I recall an airhostess coming in her working dress, straight for a seminar I was teaching using this very uni-verse. The theme of the seminar was “ Choice-Making Ability.” Some months later I learnt that she had made a choice to break away from her live-in-partner. The latter poisoned her to death and then hanged himself. She had made a choice to break away from him too late. The choice she had made to live in sin with him for many months before had taken them both to death. The Lord urges us to choose life and not death so that we and our descendants might live forever, so that we and our descendants will be blessed forever. Adam and Eve had one wrong choice and multiple right choices. Today, we have multiple wrong choices and only one right choice. The only right choice He has set before us is that we love the Lord our God, obey His voice or His written Word and the still voice of the Holy Spirit, hold fast to our faith in Him and His promises to us. He will then add life to our days and days to our lives. It is a Hobson’s choice. I had a very tall gentleman, all of 6 feet 5” sitting next to me in a flight recently. He said that in one way his great height was a blessing as he had to bow all the time as if to acknowledge God. Why should mankind ignore such an obvious choice? The reason is one, plain ignorance and two, conditioning of the past makes many blind as a bat and they prefer to peer into the darkness and death. God means business and that is why this is one of the rare occasions He calls for the witnesses of heaven- the Lord Jesus, the archangels and angels and the witnesses of earth: His chosen people-meaning the ones who have chosen to follow Him. We need to love the Lord with all our heart, meaning with all our emotions and with the maximum intensity. We need to love Him in good times and bad, when we are feeling glad and when we are sad. We need to love Him with all our soul, meaning with absolute trust and a sense of surrender. We need to love Him with all our mind, implying with each and every thought, word and decision. Our decisions and actions should reflect that increasing trust of God and His Word. The mind can be used as a gateway to truth and freedom in God or as a getaway from truth and freedom. We need to love Him with all our strength, implying that we need to trust Him for our physical health, vitality and well being. Indeed, an increasing dependence on God will make us increasingly independent and free. Prateep V Philip Listen to this Blessong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiC4GU4NttA