Choices

I read Deut. 11 tonight and found it a rich chapter and full of choices.

Moses says a couple of times something like:

2Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the LORD your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm;

Remember that your experience is not what others have experienced and you need to share what you know and have seen.

I liked this verse

8 Observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess

because God knows that we need the strength to go on.

I thought this verse was a beautiful picture:

12 It is a land the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.

This

16 Be careful

is a choice. We can chose to proceed carefully with our eyes open, or we can close them and rush into things recklessly.

18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds

another choice. We can chose to dwell on God's words or not.

26 See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse-

And another choice, albeit it should not be much of a choice- if you have a choice between blessing and curse, when put THAT way, would you choose curse?