Your Choice, Your Fate.
FOCAL VERSE
“Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!”
Deuteronomy 30:19 NLT
DEEP REFLECTION
Presently, we have a large chunk of us rooting for their respective choices without even considering sane counsel all in the name of being trendy. What we do forget is, there are laws governing nature. No one ever plants a maize and goes harvesting mangoes during the gain season. Whatever choice we take, has a fate attached to it.
Choices can in the positive and negative. It either blesses or curses you. Falling back to theme scripture from Deuteronomy 30:19, we can enunciate Moses was pushing for the Israelites to make “crystal clear” choices. Choices that “smell” of God and not vain/evil intentions. The tone of Moses’s plea to the Israelites and us seems a bit harsh but as a vessel for deliverance, Moses erred per an instruction ( He was to strike a rock with his rod but rather made the choice of pointing at it). This choice of his led to him receiving a fate of not seeing the promise land.
Further, we can look at the case of Caleb (Numbers 13&14), an individual who chose to believe the Lord’s report and not complain. He will go on to experience the promise land. Whether we like it or yes, our choices do have repercussions. It will either be one of great impact or negative.
More, one may say but that is the Old Testament. Christ Jesus redeemed us in the New so we good to go. Well, you have a valid point. However, there are cases in the new where people paid for their choices(I tell you this, Ananias and his wife equally faced the fate of their choices (Acts 5)).
I’m not saying Christ Jesus isn’t merciful or gracious, HE is. Albeit, He cannot make our choices for us. HE has given us the free will to do so with guidance from His end. Whatever choice we go for, we reap the results (fate).
Narrowing it down to our daily lifestyle’s, if you eat food gone bad, there’s a 100% you will fall ill. Here, the illness is the fate of your choice to eat food gone bad. Additionally, one who eats healthier food and stays fit won’t fall ill.
Lastly, let us do the right thing at the appropriate time. We rob ourselves of positive fates whenever we fix square pegs into round holes.
SOUL
SOUL PRAYER
Dear God, help me see the right path in all I do. Order my steps and train me to stand by what is right at all times, Amen.
INTENTIONAL EXERCISE
Take time whenever you have to make a choice. Don’t rush it but rather be proactive and enforce seeking godly counsel.
DAILY SCRIPTURES
MONDAY – DEUTERONOMY 11:26
TUESDAY- DEUTERONOMY 30:15
WEDNESDAY- 1 SAMUEL 15:22
THURSDAY- 1 PETER 1:14
FRIDAY- ISAIAH 30:21
SATURDAY- LUKE 10:27-28
