Choose Your Path
Many of us have heard about ‘choosing the right
path’ or just simply finding the path that you need to be on, but how do you
know you’re choosing the right path? What does God say about it?
Deuteronomy 30:15-20New International Version (NIV)
15 See, I set before you today life and
prosperity, death and destruction. 16 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.
17 But if your heart turns away and you are not
obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship
them, 18 I declare to you this day that you will
certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are
crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as
witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings
and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and
that you may love the Lord your
God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will
give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers,
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
God gave us two options (two paths), either choose
life or choose death. Of course he tells us to choose life, even though many of
us have chosen death by default because we didn’t know better.
There are only two paths to choose from so it makes
it a lot easier to choose the right one as long as you know His word. Choose
the path that you know follows His word and only produce good fruit, something
that you can look back on and be proud of and not the path that would cause you
to constantly contradict the word of God and you have to do things that are
going to bear bad fruit that you can’t confidently look back on the decisions
you made.
To be continued….
