The Way of Life and the Way of Death
The actual assigned reading for this session only includes verses 15 and 19 below, but I think the rest is also illuminative:
15"See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil.
16If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to take possession of it. 17But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 18I declare to you this day, that you shall perish; you shall not live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. 19I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live, 20loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice, and cleaving to him; for that means life to you and length of days, that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them." - Dt 30, 15-20
I just keep trying to choose Christ, trying to love even in the face of the threat that I will not be loved in return.
It's pretty much all I can do. I don't know any other Way.
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