In today’s first reading, DT. 30: 15-20, God says to us: “Today I have set before you life and prosperity,
death and doom…..Choose life…that you and your descendants may live, by loving
the Lord, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will
mean life….If, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, but are
led astray and adore and serve other gods, …you will certainly perish.”
Every day you and I are faced with choosing to listen to the
Lord, our God, to heed His voice and follow his ways or follow the ways of the
world and get caught in the snares of Satan—secularism, narcissism,
individualism and relativism, to name a few, and the gods these serve. However,
when we choose the fullness of life Jesus speaks about in the Gospels and which
God offers, we will prosper, not necessarily according to the standards of the world but definitely according to the
Holy Spirit who readily bestows the following life-giving gifts: inner peace, inner joy,
the strength of the Spirit, God’s abundant love active within our choices and God’s
light in the dark moments of life.
The choice of “life
and prosperity, [heeding the voice of the Spirit], death and doom [ignoring the Spirit’s lead]” is ours to make. If I choose my will over God’s,
my choices will block the blessings God is prepared to give in abundance.
Which choice will you make?
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