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Countless Parents
Countless parents are out there pleading right now with their teenagers and young adults that they give up the drugs and blind following of their peers.
Godless living and sinful lifestyles abound.
IF ONLY your sons and daughters turned away from those things, you are thinking.
Perhaps, you are praying because you KNOW that God is the answer.
Similarly, Moses was speaking to the Israelites.
The Promised Land is before them. He is aware of the temptations that also lie before them. If they choose God, they will live, but sadly they do not choose God.
Let us read these words of Moses now:
Deuteronomy 30:15-20 NKJV “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, 16 in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. 17 But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them, 18 I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 20 that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
With Moses, we urge our children to choose God and thereby, to choose Life.
Perhaps, we have walked that other path ourselves.
That path we were following would lead to death, if we had not turned from it and toward God.
Embracing the Commandments and statutes of God bring LIFE and JOY with Him.
Life here and in eternity will have purpose and meaning.
Without the Lord and His ways, we follow into the clutches of satan and his ways.
Sorrow, sickness, and sin multiply until ultimately, we send ourselves to hell.
The choice is before us all.
What could be a simpler choice?
Realize too that your friend, your peer, your partner, or your spouse will not be helping you in hell.
You will be on your own.
The party will be over.
The high will be forever gone.
So, before it is too late, TURN FROM THE DEVIL!
TURN FROM DEATH!