16For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, 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.... 19This day I call heaven and 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 20and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. - Deut. 30:15-20
23Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 24For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. 25What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self? - Luke 9:23-25
Life is all about choices. Even though God has the power over all, He has given us the freedom to make choices. Choices that will affect us and our futures. Choices that will affect others - for good or bad. God has given us the choice to determine not only how we live our lives, but where we will spend eternity. Of course, He continually invites and draws us to HImself and pleads for us to choose Him - and to choose LIFE.
Ironically, for those who desire forever life, it means to give up one's life. To turn one's life over to Jesus Christ. To trust Him for complete forgiveness and restoration. To allow the Holy Spirit of God to control and empower one's life completely. To worship God the Father over anything else in or out of this world. In abandoning my life to God, I gain life that is far more fulfilling, purposeful and ever lasting.
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