When we hear Choose Life, we immediately think of letting babies live, and that is good and true and right. But, there is more to this and this is what God has been showing me! We are to choose life each and every day! Today, I want to look at another aspect of choosing life.

In Deut. 30:19 it says I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, now choose life so that you and your descendants may live.

LIFE – that verse in the Strong’s concordance means:
living, alive, green vegetation, flowing, fresh (of water) lively, active (of man) reviving of the springtime. Sustenance, maintenance, relatives, living things (animal) appetite, community, REVIVAL and RENEWAL.

The word LIVE means:
To have life, to continue in life, to sustain life, to live prosperously, to revive, be quickened (from sickness, discouragement, faintness and death) to preserve alive, to give life, to quicken, refresh, revive,
restore to life, and cause to grow.

Every day we will have many choices to make. And what I hear God saying today is CHOOSE LIFE in every situation. What are you dealing with? Choose the option that brings life, that is sustenance, that refreshes a healthy appetite. (Dead people don’t eat!) Choose things and options that refresh, revive and restore to life and cause to grow.

Are you believing for family? Good news. Look at the verse – the latter part says choose life so that you AND YOUR DESCENDANTS SHALL LIVE. WHOA – so we could say it this way -Choose life so that you and your descendants will have life, continue in life, will be life sustained, will live prosperously, be revived, be quickened from sickness, discouragement, faintness and death, SO THAT YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS will be preserved, refreshed, revived and caused to grow!

YOUR CHOICES AFFECT YOUR FAMILY!

Your choices affect your finances, and the finances of your family. When we, as parents, make LIFE CHOICES, we can put a demand on this word that our descendants will live and prosper!

What are you facing today? No doubt, some hard choices, but friend, let me encourage you to CHOOSE LIFE. Even in the hard things. Even if it means a tough time for a minute. It is better to choose God’s way, and bring restoration, than to indulge our flesh, emotions and soul and the end is death and destruction. Our soul will lie to us to have comfort NOW – but let the uncomfortableness of the hard choice be a down payment of the restoration of life that is coming.

CHOOSE LIFE so that you and your descendants may LIVE!