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 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 heart 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
ever forget that if the Lord is your life, He has promised you great and
wonderful things (Jeremiah 33:3). Many times our attitude keeps us from His
promise. We not only miss the promise but His amazing peace (Philippians
4:6-7). “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!
© 2017 Lynn Lacher
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