The Lord Said, “Choose Life”: Its Meaning and Connection to Our Daily Life

Deuteronomy 30: 1- 20 is a very special part of the Bible, not because of its content but it’s significant connection to our spiritual life as Christians.

The passage there kept coming back to my mind for the past several months and I contemplated about its connection to me.

I thought about my troubles and struggles as a normal human being. The decisions I made and their effects to me now.

The other meaning of the passage, aside from its literal meaning as interpreted and explained by others, came to me when one time I sighed about the hurdles I overcame then said, “Thanks I am still alive.” But then another question popped up, “Why I am still alive?”

After thinking deeply why, I exclaimed, “Because I chose life.”

There were many times in my life when I was in a situation to choose what should I do: Should I steal to satisfy my hunger, wants, or desires? Should I end my life because the problem was heavy a burden it seemed to have no solution in sight? Should I surrender because I can’t take the hardships of life anymore? And many more setups where I need to make a decision of doing good or doing bad.

Today, as I am thinking about it, I am happy and very thankful to the Lord for His guidance for me to make the right decisions of choosing life instead of death.

I don’t know what kind of trouble you’re at now but I am hoping that, as Christian, whatever decision you make it is pro-life. Choose life.

There are temptations that seem look like validate our decision to decide otherwise, like stealing because we are dying of hunger. However, let us remember what Jesus told Satan when he was tempted to turn the stones into bread and other tricks to make Jesus slipped into his destruction - all the decisions he made was to choose life.

If we steal, we may not die immediately but we could be jailed, or the people will lost their trust in you because you’re ready to do bad once in a very trying situation. Others commit suicide without even trying to fight they may have the chance to win.




If you’re a soldier who happens to be in an encounter with enemies outnumbering your group that the chance to survive seems to be zero, will you point your gun into your temple and kill yourself or commit suicide by pointing your gun to the enemies and try to kill at least one of them or who knows many of them. Your death will not be in naught because you died fighting.

The same thing in life. We fight by trying to find solutions to our troubles, and if you feel like all alone, pray because He is always there ready to help when a faithful believer calls for help. Remember when Jesus was on the cross, he forgave one of his companions hanging on a cross when he asked Jesus to remember him. What more of us who believe in Him.

Jesus, said, to look for His help when we need a helping hand because we are down and troubled. Therefore, choose life or always do what’s good in the eyes of G-d because everything is to be gained, rather than losing all because we chose otherwise thinking we have the right to do it since it’s our life or death.

May He continue to bless us with His guidance and overlook our shortcomings and not use them to turn His back on us.

The Problem with Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

There are three major religions in this earth, whose doctrines are controlling its affairs.  These are Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Why I am going to talk only about these three is because they are the ones that are making so much hullabaloo and affects our daily living. 

If one looks at their basic teachings about G-D and how to make this world a livable one, you will see that those basic things are not followed because of their leaders’ arrogance, twisting of the truth and self-serving  purposes.

Because of this, people are confused!  They do not know what to believe because their leaders whom they should rely on are confused, they are like blind shepherds herding their flocks.

 Is it the Lord’s providence to confuse man or because the evilness of man to dominate his fellow man is on the work?

Christianity whose gospels teach him to become holy is now one of the worst religions of the earth!  His children are confused – very confused.  From one body, it divided into smithereens because of the infidelities of his leaders. 

Look around; see how many flocks guided by blind shepherds in the fields. Speak to them and you will hear their confused explanations on what direction to follow! 

In addition, in the name of freedom, her children directly defile the holiness of their faith.   No words can explain the embarrassment and shame they caused her!

Judaism who claims his TORAH came directly from heaven is so busy looking for people who utter anti-Semitic words, and suspects the world is out to destroy him.  However, he does not realize that some of his own ways is so insulting that you cannot avoid your tongue to curse him. Well, you're in the loop of the rope if you did that, you are accused of being anti-Semitic. (I guess that's the gravest sin on earth)

He acts holy but cannot stand looking a half-dressed woman.  Isn't the woman should melt in shame, and turn to the left when she met a holy man! 

He claims you are a friend; however, go to his house, and you’ll eat everything he can serve, but when he comes to your house, he will not touch anything you serve because he swears in the name of his God it is not clean.  Now tell me what you feel about that.

Islam  claims as the religion of peace, but in action looks like the opposite.  His children’s mind is full of hatred and murderous motive!  Instead of humbly sharing the good news, they are busy planning how to murder more non-believers! 

They feel so insulted when someone criticize them for their bad attitudes, and get so barbaric when someone crazy like them stomps on their Koran, but they celebrate in feast, and delighted so much when they tear others' religion's holy book. They celebrate with sweets when they hear one of their brother/sister blew his/her body in the middle of a crowd killing women, children, and people they considered infidels.

I cannot fathom why this is happening despite the fact that these three Holy Religions' Holy Books are only talking about how they should help their lost brothers and sisters to come into the right path to holiness.

These religious leaders failed the Lord that appointed them!  Every day they put Him to shame and continuously embarrassed Him.  

May the LORD have mercy to all the people being lead by the leaders of these faiths!