Deuteronomy 30:15-20
See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
“Well, if you put it that way…”
We face choices all the time. About many of them we are ambivalent. We could go either way, and we might even let the choice wait for years before we decide whether to invest, whether to change jobs, whether to move, whether to go back to school. All these things are life changing, but we know they could be good or bad in different ways.
But if it’s a choice between “life and prosperity, death and destruction” you’d think that would be different. If you have a choice between life and death, you would make that right away, and it wouldn’t require a lot of thought, right? Our obedience to God’s law should be easy. And yet it’s not.
We know right from wrong, and yet we hesitate between them. Just as Satan promised that Adam and Eve would not die, he deceives us into thinking that following our own desires might be better. No wonder our lives and our world are so broken!
But God did not hesitate. He didn’t vacillate. When we were disobedient, Jesus was obedient. He kept the law for us so that we could live!
Prayer: Father, I have broken your law, not once, but many, many times. Forgive me, for Jesus’ sake, and set my feet upon the right path once again. Amen.