Seize the Moment – Day 631
The Choice!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Wednesday, December 8.
The Bible calls every person who reads it to make the choice!
Moses introduced a phrase in Deuteronomy 11, which we will hear again in chapter 30 of his “second giving” of the Law: “I am setting before you a blessing and a curse.” This is the choice that every single person must make after being confronted with the Word of God—to believe or not to believe, to submit or not to submit, to live by faith or by sight. Moses contrasted the choice in verses 26-28:
See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today; and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by following other gods which you have not known.
Every generation must be confronted with the choice! Moses’ successor, Joshua, had to do the same thing with the Israelites near the end of his life before he transitioned leadership to the elders. Listen to Joshua’s famous words in Joshua 24:15:
If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
In the same way that Moses and Joshua called for the choice, so did Jesus Christ in His ministry, as in Luke 11:28, “blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it” (cf. Matthew 7:24-27; John 14:15).
Seize the moment and build your life upon the rock of faith in Jesus Christ. Choose this day whom you will serve!