Good day dear friends.
Here is our study guide for today:Tuesday: Deuteronomy 30, 31, 32Moses said that the commandment he was giving was not difficult or out of reach. How would you summarize this challenge, as found in Deuteronomy 30:11-20?
It's your choice! That's how I would summarize this commandment given to Moses. It's always our choice. We have the freedom of will, to choose what we want for ourselves. God tries to explain it in a way that is easy to understand and as God Himself said, reachable. It doesn't require mountain climbers or sailors to attain it; it's as close as our heart and mouth. It requires our wanting to have it.
The choice is this: God and God's goodness for our lives or Death and the destruction that comes with choosing anything or anyone but God. To choose God means to choose life and all the blessings that come with life. To choose away from God means to choose to live a life filled with the consequences of what we've chosen.
Does that still hold true today? Of course. We daily have the choice of how and for Whom we'll live our day. We have before us, like the people of God in that day, God and blessing or Death and curses. It seems simple enough, but you know sometimes it's not. Sometimes the line that we hope is always clear is a bit blurred or not as straight or clearly defined as we would like, and so sometimes we choose wrong. Only through prayer and listening for God through the reading of His Holy Word can that line be clearer for us.
PRAYER: Loving God, let me know just what I need to choose today. Speak to me words of life and the fullness of life so that I might live a light that brings others to You. I pray this in Christ Jesus' name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
e.v.
Here is our study guide for today:Tuesday: Deuteronomy 30, 31, 32Moses said that the commandment he was giving was not difficult or out of reach. How would you summarize this challenge, as found in Deuteronomy 30:11-20?
It's your choice! That's how I would summarize this commandment given to Moses. It's always our choice. We have the freedom of will, to choose what we want for ourselves. God tries to explain it in a way that is easy to understand and as God Himself said, reachable. It doesn't require mountain climbers or sailors to attain it; it's as close as our heart and mouth. It requires our wanting to have it.
The choice is this: God and God's goodness for our lives or Death and the destruction that comes with choosing anything or anyone but God. To choose God means to choose life and all the blessings that come with life. To choose away from God means to choose to live a life filled with the consequences of what we've chosen.
Does that still hold true today? Of course. We daily have the choice of how and for Whom we'll live our day. We have before us, like the people of God in that day, God and blessing or Death and curses. It seems simple enough, but you know sometimes it's not. Sometimes the line that we hope is always clear is a bit blurred or not as straight or clearly defined as we would like, and so sometimes we choose wrong. Only through prayer and listening for God through the reading of His Holy Word can that line be clearer for us.
PRAYER: Loving God, let me know just what I need to choose today. Speak to me words of life and the fullness of life so that I might live a light that brings others to You. I pray this in Christ Jesus' name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
e.v.
