"I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life"
What do you suppose it means to choose life?
Does it mean overhauling your current lifestyle?
Or is it personal for each individual? My hang-ups are completely different than someone else's, and what you may struggle with, I don't give a second thought to.
Nobody is capable of living a perfect life, or always making the right choice, so how do you choose life?
And is it okay to NOT choose life, occasionally, because we're still sinners....right?
I'm open for discussion.
Edit: let's not forget that God said this in the pre-Jesus Old Testament, so He probably wasn't referring to being born again.
"I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life"
What do you suppose it means to choose life?
Does it mean overhauling your current lifestyle?
Or is it personal for each individual? My hang-ups are completely different than someone else's, and ...[text shortened]... t God said this in the pre-Jesus Old Testament, so He probably wasn't referring to being born again.
Interestingly enough, we have free will to choose life.....yet humans are born with the inclination to choose death.
Alcohol, drugs, porn, gambling, overeating, excessive spending, cigarettes, cigars, etc.
People dismiss what's not an issue for them, yet condone what they themselves do.
"I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life"
What do you suppose it means to choose life?
Does it mean overhauling your current lifestyle?
Or is it personal for each individual? My hang-ups are completely different than someone else's, and ...[text shortened]... t God said this in the pre-Jesus Old Testament, so He probably wasn't referring to being born again.
Did you read the very next verse about Love God and OBEYING ..
That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, ....(Deuteronomy 30:20 KJV)
Love God and Obey the commandments = Life. Anything else is death. Jesus said the same thing.
We should not fear. We should take in Jesus. And then take in Jesus some more.
We should start the day with Jesus if we can.
Starting the day in fellowship and prayer goes a Long Long way to living through
Christ.
Just like in chess it is important to make sure you get your share of the middle of the board so being strengthened in Christ. You START the day with the Lord dedicating some amount of time for prayer, Bible reading, praise, whatever you have some time for.
IF we "eat" Him we will live because of Him. garuanteed.
"As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me." (John 6:57)
We should not fear. We should take in Jesus. And then take in Jesus some more.
We should start the day with Jesus if we can.
Starting the day in fellowship and prayer goes a Long Long way to living through
Christ.
Just like in chess it is important to make sure you get your share of the middle of the board so being strengthened in Christ. ...[text shortened]... live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me." (John 6:57) [/b]
We should not fear. We should take in Jesus. And then take in Jesus some more.
We should start the day with Jesus if we can.
Starting the day in fellowship and prayer goes a Long Long way to living through
Christ.
Just like in chess it is important to make sure you get your share of the middle of the board so being strengthened in Christ. ...[text shortened]... live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me." (John 6:57) [/b]
Hilarious.
I was thinking, 'at least sonship hasn't said about eating Jesus," and then bang, there it is at the end.
We should not fear. We should take in Jesus. And then take in Jesus some more.
We should start the day with Jesus if we can.
Starting the day in fellowship and prayer goes a Long Long way to living through
Christ.
Just like in chess it is important to make sure you get your share of the middle of the board so being strengthened in Christ. ...[text shortened]... live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me." (John 6:57) [/b]
@chaney3said Nobody is capable of obeying, at all times.
Except Jesus.
That is a lame comment typical of church Christians. You started going to church.
Are you capable of obeying some of the time? If yes then just shut up and do what you are capable of. Do you know the parable of the talents and what happened to the fool to told Jesus that he was not capable of doing anything ? Read it and see if you would like Jesus's response to people like you.
@rajk999said That is a lame comment typical of church Christians. You started going to church.
Are you capable of obeying some of the time? If yes then just shut up and do what you are capable of. Do you know the parable of the talents and what happened to the fool to told Jesus that he was not capable of doing anything ? Read it and see if you would like Jesus's response to people like you.
@chaney3said While we may have the privilege of knowing that today, the readers of Deuteronomy didn't know.
So what did God have in mind at that time?
"life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life."
Life = The blessing
Death = The curse
That particular passage relates to the covenant God wished to establish with his people. (Who have to use their freewill to choose it, as opposed to life without God - death).
"Choose Life"
02 Jan '22 16:311 edit
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