KEY verse.
MORNING THOUGHTS ☕️:
Porch sittin’ while I can today…before it gets too hot. I’m in Deuteronomy 30. As I’m reading the section on “The CHOICE of Life or Death”, I can’t help but think that these are some of the most KEY verses in the Bible. Pivotal verses. A crossroad.
It’s staying it’s a CHOICE and WE get to choose. It’s not a secret locked up in heaven that we can’t figure out. It’s not so distant that we can’t decipher it. Nope. It’s a super close one…on OUR lips and in OUR hearts, actually.
WE are the ones who choose life or death, blessings or curses. There should be no “oh why oh why is this happening to me!?” kind of stuff.
He says it. Over and over.
I’m giving you a CHOICE (the right, power, or opportunity to choose).
BUT.
“If your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and if you are drawn away to serve and worship other gods….then I am warning you!”
I mean…can’t say we weren’t warned. Can’t say we don’t know that if we choose to not listen, if we choose to go our own way, if we choose to worship this world, worship our possessions, worship our careers, worship our success, worship ourselves…that we don’t know where it will lead.
There are a little of little gods vying for our attention…trying to get our eyes off the REAL God and trying to get us to choose our own way.
Don’t take the bait.
And then I kept reading and Deut 30:20 just underscored it all:
“THIS is the key to your life.”
Pretty bold stuff. Like highlight it and underline it stuff. Like really get it stuff. I think I’ll go read it all again.
xox.eb