Choices

Deuteronomy 30:15-20...

"Now listen! Today I am giving you a choice between prosperity and disaster, between life and death. I have commanded you today to love the Lord your God and to keep his commands, laws, and regulations by walking in his ways. If you do this, you will live and become a great nation, and the Lord your God will bless you and the land you are about to enter and occupy. But if your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and if you are drawn away to serve and worship other gods, then I warn you now that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live a long, good life in the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy. Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, that you and your descendants might live! Choose to love the Lord your God and to obey him and commit yourself to him, for he is your life. Then you will live long in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Just as the nation of Israel was faced with a choice, so are we. Many in fact. We make daily decisions, consciously or not, that take us a step closer or farther away from God's best. We are wise to train ourselves to be alert and ready to make purposeful decisions.
I must choose to believe Truth over whatever human circumstances, emotions, and 'realities' life throws my way. Such acts of the will gradually align us with the will and heart of the Father, who faithfully gives life and blessing.