MAKE YOUR CHOICE!

 MONDAY OCTOBER 5, 2020

EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SUBJECT: MAKE YOUR CHOICE! 

Memory verse: "I call heaven and earth as witness 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." (Deuteronomy 30 vs 19.)

READ: Deuteronomy 30 vs 19 - 20:

30:19: I call heaven and earth as witness 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;

30:20: that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.

INTIMATION:

All that God requires of everyone of us to do to be saved takes no scholar to understand and apply. For this reason God holds each of us individually responsible for our own eternal destiny. In life we are faced with choices. God has ordained our paths in life, that we may accomplish our predetermined purposes in life in accordance with His Will for us. God doesn't force His Will on anyone. He lets us decide whether to follow Him or reject Him, obey Him or disobey Him. This decision, however, is a “life or death“ matter. With disobedience there is death and evil. God wants us to realize this, for He would like us all to choose life, and daily, in every situation, we must affirm and reinforce this commitment. 

The final exhortation is to make a free-moral decision to choose that which will bring life and good. The Will of God is enshrined in His “instructional manual” - the Bible. Within the pages of the Bible we find a purpose for everything under the sun, even the tests we face in life. In our memory verse today, God spoke to His children, and presented them with a multiple choice test: the choice between life and death. He tested them with problems while they were in the wilderness. Why were they tested? The answer is in the passage we read today. God tests us so see if we would hear Him and obey His commandments; walking in accordance with His Will for us, that He would bless us. 

God knows the future, and His plans for us are good and full of hope. As long as God who knows the future, provides our agenda and goes with us as we fulfill His mission, we can have boundless good success. This does not mean that we will be spared pain, suffering, or hardship, but that God will see us through to a glorious end. It is easy to obey when everything is falling in place, and grand for us. But what about obeying God when you are on a crossroad, or in the middle of the most severe problem of your life?

We all have unique personalities, and we all have our own individual purposes. Our paths of life, in accordance with God’s Will for us, are unique and our tests are different and predetermined by Him for His purposes. We may not like the way we are tested, but God chooses the test, and He is the One who issues the final grade. No one likes problems. Consequently, no one likes to be tested, and no one likes to take the same test over and over again. The only way we can avoid taking a test the second time is to pass it the first time around.

It is only in ensuring that you play appropriately your own part in the relationship with God that you may pass the test the first time. And to be able to do that, you should regularly go through your spiritual checklist to ensure you are not the architect of any problems you face by not living in accordance with His Will. How then do you that? The “Instructional Manual” - the Bible guides us through life and it's obstacles. When you are in the midst of a problem, it is vital to go through your spiritual checklist to ensure you are not the source of the problem by deviating from God’s instruction.q

If you are not the source of the problem by ensuring you have done or is doing your part, then be patient, God will definitely do His part, He is not a man that He should lie nor the son of man that He will repent, He does what He says, and makes good what He has spoken (Numbers 23 vs 19). Though it might tarry, but be patient, it must surely come to pass! (Habakkuk 2 vs 3).

Prayer: Abba Father, Your ways are excellent, and Your thoughts past finding out. Your counsel stands forever. Your Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Show me the path of life that I may walk in it, and be in Your presence, enjoying the fullness of joy, and accompanying pleasures, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!