Dear Friend,
I trust you are being enriched by these words and making applications. I urge you to not just be a reader but a doer also. It’s your choice! So far we have learned that our choices:
- Have positive and negative consequences – Blessings and Curses
- Can potentially affect others too – You and your seed, me and my house
- Determine the quality of our living – If you obey, you will prosper in everything you do.
- Need to be reviewed from time to time – Moses /Joshua.
- Or lack thereof will cause us to be unstable and hence prone to falling.
15 “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, 16 in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply.
Deuteronomy 30:15-16
A good choice will cause you to go beyond merely existing to growing. It will move you from a state of barely kicking to move forward by leaps and bounds. When you choose life, you don’t just live but you also multiply! Your existence becomes eminent in the multiple of your achievements and improvements. Friend, this is prosperity! Prosperity doesn’t just happen accidentally but rather purposefully.
Therefore, obey the terms of this covenant so that you will prosper in everything you do. Deuteronomy 29:9
Do you now see how this relates to your choice(s)? You have to choose to obey so you can prosper, not just in some things but in everything you do. The reverse will be the case when you choose not to obey. Do you want to come out of obscurity and live in prosperity? It’s your choice!
The fact that you have been in some conflicts will give you an idea that not everyone agrees with your opinion. We all have different make-ups; our choices differ. You’ll always have Mary and Martha, Elijah against the prophets of Baal and Asherah, Joshua and Caleb versus the ten spies to name just a few and hence we must carefully deliberate on our thoughts and their corresponding actions and stand by them than waver in the influence of others.
Had Elijah not stood his ground, it wouldn’t be established that Baal is false and God is Mighty and can answer by fire. If Joshua and Caleb had not unswervingly held unto their opinion of being well able to take on the Promised Land, the giants would have remained, Joshua would not be delegated to divide the inheritance, and Caleb would not inherit Hebron. Similarly, if Mary hadn’t sat at the feet of the Lord Jesus learning and feeding on the Living Word as opposed to being distracted by preparing dinner like Martha, many of us would carry on worrying and fussing about trivial matters, and not focus on the ‘one thing’ which really matters.
The lesson to learn from the above is that the fact that the majority votes doesn’t mean that it’s absolute. Don’t go with the crowd! Stand by your decisions. Choose to choose!
Related Journals:
Choose – Part 1
Choose – Part 2