The Two Paths

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….