Today : Follow God
TODAY’S VERSE
“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.” Deuteronomy 30:19-20 (NLT)
TODAY’S THOUGHT
Our choices can make all the difference in the world. We are constantly taking in data, predicting and weighing options. We make so many different selections each day we cannot keep count. However, some choices are more important that others. Vanilla or chocolate ice cream may not effect your world one little bit. But moral or legal issues can alter your life. The friends you select, the things you choose to do to please others, all these have ways of influencing our lives. Who you are going to marry has a lot to do with the rest of your life. College and career decisions are important milestones. But the one choice that guides all others is whether or not you choose to follow God. Moses calls it “choosing life”. And like many major choices, they are only as good as the thousands of little choices you make to support your decision. You can decide to cross an ocean in a sail boat, but it is the daily choices you make in re-correcting your course that gets you to the other shore. In the marriage ceremony we ask the groom, “Will you love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health, and forsaking every other, keep to her only, so long as you both shall live?” He can say, “I do” but it is only as good as him getting up everyday and saying, “I will!” Moses said that you can choose life by making a choice to love God, obey Him and committing yourself firmly to Him. Today choose to follow God in all you do because “choosing to follow God is the key to your life.”
TODAY’S PRAYER
Father, today I choose You. I choose to live for You. I choose to follow you in all that I do. Guide me, direct me. Give me the strength to do this, in Jesus’ name.
AMEN
TODAY’S AFFIRMATION & MEDITATION
I choose to follow God
Visualize yourself at a pivotal place in your journey. You have to decide what to do. They are diverse directions so the choice is serious. See yourself asking God for help. Sense His presence. You feel a peace as He gives you wisdom. You hear Him say, “Walk this way” and decide to follow Him. With joy you affirm, “I choose to follow God!”