See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
This clearly a call to follow God "TODAY!" Our plans are almost always to follow God and worship Him tomorrow, but the only way you can do that is to worship Him and follow Him TODAY!
Life is always TODAY.
We don't know about tomorrow, (DT 29:29) but we know about TODAY. If we want to love God tomorrow, we must love God TODAY.
Hebrews 3:13
Exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
The VISION is to worship God tomorrow and forever.
The COMMAND is to worship God TODAY.
So as long as it is called TODAY, worship Jesus. Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, whatever you're mixed up in, whatever you fear about the future and where its' all going… worship God TODAY.
You aren't called to have everything figured out, you are called to choose THIS DAY to worship Jesus. Moses wasn't banking on this being a one-time, come to Jesus, altar call moment followed by going back to "business as usual" tomorrow.
For now, let tomorrow worry about itself (Mt 6:34). By this time tomorrow, the COMMAND will be, "Worship God TODAY!"
This fact of "choosing today" is also evident in the fact that Joshua, Moses' successor ends his ministry with a similar call...
Joshua 24:14-15 14
Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Whatever DAY it is, the call is ALWAYS to CHOOSE on THAT DAY to worship God.
So as long as it is called TODAY, worship Jesus. Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, whatever you're mixed up in, whatever you fear about the future and where its' all going… worship God TODAY.
You aren't called to have everything figured out, you are called to choose THIS DAY to worship Jesus. Moses wasn't banking on this being a one-time, come to Jesus, altar call moment followed by going back to "business as usual" tomorrow.
For now, let tomorrow worry about itself (Mt 6:34). By this time tomorrow, the COMMAND will be, "Worship God TODAY!"
This fact of "choosing today" is also evident in the fact that Joshua, Moses' successor ends his ministry with a similar call...
Joshua 24:14-15 14
Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Whatever DAY it is, the call is ALWAYS to CHOOSE on THAT DAY to worship God.
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