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! You can make this choice by loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This is the key to your life. And if you love and obey the Lord, you will live long in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. (Deuteronomy 30:19-20)Back in the 1980’s, Nancy Reagan introduced a program called “Just Say No.” The idea was that we had the power to choose between what was good and what was bad.
The liberals went ballistic. Their idea was that you had to have someone help you say no, a government committee or office that was in charge of saying no for you. The idea of you saying no yourself was ludicrous. You had to have government help.
Of course, the whole biblical model is based on your ability to say yes or no. just lie Moses says here, choose which is the good and which is the bad. Then do what you choose. If you choose bad, bad things will happen to you and you will not enjoy the presence of God.
If, on the other hand, you choose good, then you will have found the key to life. And you will be pleasing to God, who made you to choose.
You figure that God made us able to choose. He put everything in the garden that was good, and he put one thing that humanity could not bother. Adam and Eve pondered the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the one God said not to bother, and they ate the fruit of it.
They chose badly and they suffered for it.
Titus 2:11-13 says For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
With the power of God, we can say no. we can refuse to do what is wrong. We don’t need a government committee or department to show us what to do when faced with problems. Just say no.
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