Choose blessings and life so that you and your descendants may live!

"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants!” (Deut. 30:19 NASB)

And behind door number three …

When I was growing up, my family and I would often watch TV game shows. One of our favorites, Let’s Make a Deal, with host, Monty Hall, would end with a contestant being given the choice to choose among three doors. Behind one door would be a huge prize, perhaps a Hawaiian vacation or a brand-new luxury car, and behind the other doors would be a gag gift such as a goat or a baloney sandwich. We would watch anxiously and gasp if they chose wrong.

God also gives us choices, but with a huge difference!

In today’s verse, God says, “I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse.” But, unlike Monty Hall, God wants you to make the right choice! He tells you which one to choose so you won't make a mistake! He says, “So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants!”

How to choose life

Jesus Himself is the correct answer for choosing life. He is God's gift of love to you and when you choose Him, you choose life!

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” (John 3:16 NASB)

He is the only way to life!

“Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” (John 14:6 NASB)

When you have Jesus, you have life!

“Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God's Son does not have life.” (2 John 5:12 NLT)