Your Choices Makes You…
Text: _“Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!”_ (Deuteronomy 30:19 NLT)
Your life is the sum total of the choices you make. Each day you make choices that affect your future. When you choose to eat junks instead of vegetables, you affect how healthy you will be in the future. When you choose how much to spend and how much to save, you affect your future financial stability. When you choose how you treat family and friends, you affect how healthy your relationships will be. When you choose to vote in a corrupt and incompetent leader instead of a prudent and competent leader, you affect how the outcome of your nation will be. However, the most important choice you make is when you choose how to respond to God, especially in the matter of salvation. Beyond salvation, how you respond to God in obedience today will determine the increase, recovery, restoration and blessing you receive in this year, and, ultimately, will determine your destiny and eternity. Another choice you should never joke with is the choice of a spouse to spend your life with. It can make you or mar you. It can bring a life turnaround, either positively or negatively.
The Bible talks a lot about the importance of our choices. The entire 28th chapter of Deuteronomy is dedicated to choosing to do right and being blessed or choosing to do wrong and being cursed. Joshua 24:15 offers a clear choice between serving false gods and serving the Lord. When Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal, he asked, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, follow him” (1 Kings 18:21). Romans 12:9 sums up the theme of choice: “Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.” Be careful with your choices this year.
Prayer:
Father, may I never consume my nation by my present decisions. Help me to take actions that will transform the generations to come in Jesus’ Name._
Text: _“Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!”_ (Deuteronomy 30:19 NLT)
Your life is the sum total of the choices you make. Each day you make choices that affect your future. When you choose to eat junks instead of vegetables, you affect how healthy you will be in the future. When you choose how much to spend and how much to save, you affect your future financial stability. When you choose how you treat family and friends, you affect how healthy your relationships will be. When you choose to vote in a corrupt and incompetent leader instead of a prudent and competent leader, you affect how the outcome of your nation will be. However, the most important choice you make is when you choose how to respond to God, especially in the matter of salvation. Beyond salvation, how you respond to God in obedience today will determine the increase, recovery, restoration and blessing you receive in this year, and, ultimately, will determine your destiny and eternity. Another choice you should never joke with is the choice of a spouse to spend your life with. It can make you or mar you. It can bring a life turnaround, either positively or negatively.
The Bible talks a lot about the importance of our choices. The entire 28th chapter of Deuteronomy is dedicated to choosing to do right and being blessed or choosing to do wrong and being cursed. Joshua 24:15 offers a clear choice between serving false gods and serving the Lord. When Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal, he asked, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, follow him” (1 Kings 18:21). Romans 12:9 sums up the theme of choice: “Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.” Be careful with your choices this year.
Prayer:
Father, may I never consume my nation by my present decisions. Help me to take actions that will transform the generations to come in Jesus’ Name._
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