Making a choice
Mr Pamsperambulation and I have been choosing our holidays. Now this is notoriously a tricky business, involving exploring all the possible options and reading many reviews and much procrastination. There is so much choice out there.
Yet how much does it really matter? Yes it’s nice to have a lovely holiday, but at the end of the day, it’s for just a few days out of our lives. If it should turn out to be horrendous (and we’ve only ever been to 2 places that we wished we hadn’t been to in 26 years and many holidays, so that’s not bad going), we can always come home, find somewhere else, or put up with it. It is not a choice that seriously effects our lives.
In this reading, Moses reminds the people that they have a serious choice to make:
between good and evil; between life and death; between God’s ways and going the other way.
A serious choice that needs to be made.
The way they chose to go was going to effect the life of the Israelites. They had come to a crunch point in their journey. They were about to cross the River Jordan and begin a new life. What was the basis for that life going to be?
What about us? Are we going to live our life in God’s ways? To love him, do what he asks of us – or not. The choice is ours.
Lord you give us a choice.
A stark choice I suppose.
Not about something frivolous,
but about the most important thing in our lives.
Are we going to go your way?
Or another way?
The choice is ours,
you aren’t going to force us.
So what will it be
for me, today?
Pam's Perambulation 