Thursday, February 18, 2010: Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Luke 9:22-25

Our freedom comes with a choice between life and death, prosperity and doom, blessings and curses. On face value, this looks like a very easy decision to make. It is what follows thereafter that is the problem. If you choose life, prosperity and blessings, then you must follow the commands of the Lord and walk in his ways. As a Christian people, we enjoy these blessings today but they sometimes might not be very obvious to us. I have heard people complain that it is unfair for God to allow someone who throughout his life lived an evil life to repent in his death bed. That is the wrong way of looking at things. Think about all the blessings that person missed throughout his life here on earth. New studies show that regular church attendance accounts for an additional three years of life. Believers in God also tend to recover faster from diseases. When death is eminent as a result of illness, those who believe in God are more peaceful and die a more peaceful death than non-believers. These are some of the blessings for our faith in God.