What is a
heart choice? It is whatever your attitude happens to be about a circumstance,
another person, yourself, God, or anything in your life. It is whatever
motivates your action. It is whether you approach each day with dread or with
anticipation. John Wesley believed that sin resides in the attitude of the
heart. It is your heart choice—your motivation or your attitude—which speaks of
life or of death. Heart choices speak of who is really in charge of your life—of
who is in control.
Just
before his death Moses spoke to the Israelites and instructed them to choose
prosperity and life instead of destruction and death. They were poised on the
brink of the Promised Land. “Love the Lord your God! Walk in His ways,” Moses
pleaded. “Keep His command” (Deuteronomy 30:15)! Moses spoke from his own
failure to obey God. He would not see that land flowing with milk and honey.
The Lord sets before His children the same command today.
Our promised land waits. In fact we can smell its fragrance and its promise, but
it is just beyond our reach. “Choose life,” the Lord pleads, “the land is
waiting for you to enter and possess it!” The ability to choose life rests
within your heart.
“What I command you today is not too difficult for you or
beyond your reach,” Moses instructed. “The Word is very near you; it is in your
mouth and in your heart so you may obey it! Choose life” (Deuteronomy 30:11-14)!
The Word of God is meant to be alive and active. It is meant to reside within
our hearts so that we might obey its instruction. Is it real in your heart? Do
you know it?
“If your heart turns away and you are not obedient, I
declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not
receive what I have promised you” (Deuteronomy 30:18)! The Lord wishes His
children to keep their hearts and minds upon Him. He yearns for us to reach our
promised land! Often we don’t consider the fact that the motivations and
attitudes of our hearts keep us from what God has promised us.
“Now choose life,” Moses
pleads, “so that you and your children may live, and that you may love the Lord
your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life”
(Deuteronomy 30:19b-20a). Don't every forget that if the Lord is your life, He
has promised you great and wonderful things (Jeremiah 33:3). But you can't enter
your promised land without choosing a good attitude toward others, yourself, and
life.
“Believe in me instead of what you have always thought
yourself to be!” the Lord proclaims. “Trade the positive for the negative and
see blessing! You will have surrendered your life for mine. You will have given
up curse for my blessing, death for my abundant life!
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