Choose Life!

Karma.  You reap what you sow. What goes around comes around.  Moment on the lips, lifetime on the hips.

Consequences are an essential truth of the universe: EVERYONE reaps what they sow.  Nonbelievers who work hard and live honest, clean lives, are healthier financially, physically, emotionally, and in other ways.  They may have better families, more career success, and even better health.  By contrast, believers who live selfish, lazy, dishonest lives, who participate in the worst sins of the world will live shorter, sadder lives.  You reap what you sow. (A believer who is morbidly obese will probably NOT outlive an atheist who runs marathons, right?)  You reap what you sow—and God does not always miraculously step in and deliver us from the consequences of chronic, repeated actions. (Though I’m sure he steps in more than we know!)

But do you ever SOW consciously?  That is, do you THINK ABOUT IT? Do you think about your grades, or your habits, or your work, or what you eat, or your “sleep hygiene”?

“I have set before you life and prosperity, death and adversity….  I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. CHOOSE LIFE so that you and your descendants may live, love the Lord your God, obey Him, and remain faithful to him.  For He is your life and he will prolong your life….” Deuteronomy 30:15,19-20.

CHOOSE LIFE!  May we choose to live each day in a way that pleases God.  “The Lord will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers” 30:9.  God enjoys blessing his children. He DELIGHTS in it.  Make good choices.  Honor him so he can bless you and DELIGHT in your prosperity.

God, help us choose habits that please you, and choose to avoid things that do not.  Bless us, God—and may you bless us so much that YOU enjoy it!

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