“Choose Life!”

What can THAT mean? How does a living, breathing human being CHOOSE to be alive?

Unless you are a cadaver with a computer propped up in front of you (not sure about some of you…), we can say with certainty: you ARE alive. Until the coroner gives the word, you are alive, and not dead. So what does God mean when He says, “Choose Life!”?

In the Garden of Eden, Father scooped up some dust, molded it by Hand (the original Play Dough), and made the most beautiful and incredible artwork ever: a made-in-His-Image masterpiece, the first Human. We lay there (as dirt does) until God put His Mouth on our nostrils (Gen 2:7) and Breathed Life into us. And…we became Alive!

And what a life it was! Walking with God in our own Private Garden, playing with all the peaceful animals, eating the healthiest and tastiest of foods, and - the best part - never doing laundry!

All was well, and every day was perfect, until…we chose. The choice started with a simple decision to look at forbidden fruit. From there, temptation grew; and, because it was never cut off (another choice) sin occurred.

“On the day that you eat of it, you will most assuredly die.”

Well, THAT didn’t happen, that is, if we are talking about physical death. So there must be another death, and another Life, that God was referring to. Adam and Eve both continued to live on for hundreds and hundreds of years after that, living a life that was far, far from the Life they had been created into.

“Today, I set before you Life…so choose it.”

What if I told you that there was another Life available to you today, other than the one that you are now living? A Life where worry, fear, anger, lust, depression, pride, boredom…simply do not exist, and therefore have no power over you. A Life where God the Father, by the Holy Spirit grows His Fruits in you for you, and those around you to enjoy? If I showed you how to access that Life, would you be interested?

That is what we are going to talk about next time. 

Have a great, ALIVE day!