Choose Life

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: Deuteronomy. 30:19 (KJV)

The will of God is that you would choose life and thereby receive blessing for you, your children and your children’s children. The creation bears witness of His covenant desire.
The “life,” chay, that He wants us to choose is to live, chayah, to have a prosperous, sustainable, healthy life, that is free of sickness, discouragement, faintness and death. God wants you and I to be quickened, revived, refreshed and revived by His Spirit.
Mankind is the recipient of the most precious gift that God could give besides His Only Begotten Son; that of having a free will. He has given man the ability to choose between “life and death, blessing and cursing, God and Satan, the truth and a lie.”
He sets, as it were, a table before us and we are to take whatever we desire. Much like an earthly parent, He wills that we would choose a healthy diet that would strengthen and build. He warns us of the consequences of making the wrong choices, yet allows us to choose what we will.
As tempting as the desert dishes are, we know that to develop properly, we must balance our diet with the main course. So, too, as tempting as the things of the world are, we are called to choose the will and ways of God in order to develop suitably.
The Word of God is given as our main course. As we feast upon it we will find everything needful for life and godliness. We will be nourished properly and be full of the wisdom of God, realizing that making the right choice is vitally important.
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 1 Cor. 6:12 (KJV)