Choose Life

Deut. 30:19

"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."

   The trouble with humanity is, that as a race, it keeps choosing death. In Romans Chapter 8 the Apostle Paul give an extraordinary revelation of the two principal laws that govern the world we live in. It is hard to come to terms with, but difficult to deny, the reality that the presence and power of these two laws, though they are spiritual in nature, actually govern the physical world we are so attuned and accustomed to. Writing under the inspiration of the Spirit of the Living God, the Apostle Paul pulls back the covers on what is really going on the physical world around us. Is it possible that the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, and the law of sin and death, through the powers that each law holds, power that is exercised by humanities choices, actually influences the physical world? 

   In Deut 30:19 God makes it crystal clear that He has set life and death before His people, but He has not dictated which they much choose. Clearly the moral choices we make, everyone of them, fall into one of these two categories, since God does not reveal that there is a third. Think about the moral choices you have made, then look at the results. I'm confident that you will see pretty quickly whether your choices produced life or promoted death. Did they bring you joy and peace or leave you with regrets and sorrow. 

   There are only two choices and God has set them clearly before us. The trouble with humanity is, that as a race, it keeps choosing death, and death has power because it is tied to a law. It is law that has power, just like the law of gravity has power. Both are unseen, but both are irresistible. Both can be denied, but denial doesn't have any affect on reality. In his brillant revelation about the existence of the Spirit's law of life in Christ Jesus, and the law of sin and death, Paul uncovers an extraordinary thing. He explains that though both laws exist and both have powers, that their powers, no matter how they are compared, are by no means equal. Read the chapter and you will see that God has condemned sin and in doing so He has established the Spirit's law of life in Christ Jesus as the predominant power over all things visible and invisible. Why is this critical? Well beyond the obvious, it means that if we stop making choices that give the law of sin and death a right to operate in our lives, and begin to purposely choose life, then the greater power of the Spirit's law of life in Christ Jesus will start to transform our lives. How? By the power that God has given to the law of life that is found only in His Son. The force and power of the Spirit's law of life in Christ Jesus will begin to reproduce His life within us. How? How it is possible that an invisble law could have that kind of power? How does the law of gravity have so much constant and consistent power that it holds you to face of this planet?

   Granted it will not be easy to begin to change, especially when we have been making bad choices for so long, but you have to ask yourself if its worth it, which do I desire? I am tired of being under the bondage of the power of the law of sin and death? I am tired of not having a life to live, since the power of the law of sin and death is really controlling me? Do I desire life and all that it means to me and those around me, or do I desire death and it's continuing effects? God lays the choice at our feet and then says to us "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." Deut. 30:19