January 5, 2024 … At the Crossroads, … I Choose God’s Way!
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from the group Big Tent Revival singing … Choose Life … Poignantly, yet powerfully, singing of how Christians have a choice before us in life; and we just choose to follow God’s way to find eternal life.
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Highlight Passage: … Deuteronomy 30:19 [NLT] …
19 I call heaven and earth to speak against you today. I have put in front of you life and death, the good and the curse. <b>So choose life</b> so you and your children after you may live.
… God, thru Moses, calls on God’s people to make a covenant commitment to show their love for God by following His ways
Highlight Passage (in context) … Deuteronomy 30:15-20 … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s Spirit, thru Moses, calls on God’s people, calls on His People, at the crossroads of life or death, to choose life by following Moses.
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Reference Passage: … Psalms 119:105 (NLT] …
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
… God shows His faithful followers, thru King David’s song, how we can find His path in life - by choosing to use His word to lead us.
Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 (NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Solomon, shows that faithful followers of the Lord must trust Him to show us how to follow His way in life.
Reference Passage: … Joshua 24:15 (NLT] …
<i> 15 If you think it is wrong to serve the Lord, choose today whom you will serve. Choose the gods your fathers worshiped on the other side of the river, or choose the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.” </i>
… Joshua shows God’s people the choice before them to follow God to life or to choose to follow the gods of this world; … and Joshua decides that he and his family will choose life in serving and following The Lord.
Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 6:16 (NLT] …
16 The Lord says, “Stand by where the roads cross, and look. Ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it. And you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
… God, thru Jeremiah, shows God’s way to go at the crossroads life. to find rest for their souls; but they chose to follow their own way to their demise.
Reference Passage: … John 14:21 (NLT] …
21 The one who loves Me is the one who has My teaching and obeys it. My Father will love whoever loves Me. I will love him and will show Myself to him.”
… Jesus shows His disciples (and us) that those who choose to obey Him and follow His ways are the ones who truly love the Lord.
My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author , Elisa Morgan - AT THIS LINK - tells of how the author’s husband ran a life-threatening fever and was hospitalized longer that she anticipated; … and it came to a decision when her job demanded her to go to work or to stay with, and care for, her husband.
At some time in our lives, we may come to a crossroads of decision where we must choose which road we must follow. And today’s ODB calls us to decide which road we are going to take when we come to that crossroads of decision. And I’m stopping here to pray that we all decide to take the road where God is calling us to follow Him. But will we?
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for showing me to follow You today and tomorrow.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to choose Your way, Lord, when I come to a crossroads in life. … Amen
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1 comment:
Amen!,
Kjetil
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