Human Nature

"Happy are they who hope in the Lord."
Dt 30:15-20
Lk 9:22-25

To walk in God's ways is to love, because God is love. Love means to choose the good of the other over our own preferences. However, because of the distorted perspective of our fallen human nature, this choice 'seems' like a choice for death to us, not a choice for life! And so we tend to turn our hearts away from love, that is, away from God, and seek other "gods" that will give us life. We turn to ---- anything that seems to promise "life" to us. But we have learned by now that these things are all "false gods". They do not fill us with life, only emptiness and despair.
We take the Lord at his word. What good does it do to us if we gain the whole world and destroy ourselves in the process? Rather, let us abandon our lives to him, and so live with him eternally. Let us make the choice for life! We have a choice to make : "Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom." The choice is most serious, with eternal consequences : life or death, prosperity or doom. Given a choice, which of us would not choose life and prosperity?♥