This is the question that comes when the server comes to the table. Have you decided? When my wife and I go out, the pre-process is always the same. “what are you getting?” “what do you think you want?” Inevitably the responses come. “I’m not sure” or “I can’t decide” or “I was thinking of having that too.” Or the worst…. “I’ll just have what I always get.” The arrival of the server is like Alex Trebek and Final Jeopardy!
So, what is your choice today? For this week, what will you choose? Moses asked this question. Moses in Deuteronomy 30 said “See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.” God had set the table, menu and nourishment before his people. All they needed to do was CHOOSE.
When Jesus set the table of himself as the Bread of Life, as the one whose flesh is real food and blood is real drink, many of those who followed him left. He then set the question before his apostles, “And you, will you leave me?” Jn 6:67. Peter responded boldly. “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
Don’t let someone else pick. Don’t order the same thing as before.
So today…Choose. Choose Life. Choose Joy. Choose Faith. Choose Hope. Choose Love. Choose Christ.
Read Deuteronomy 30:15-20 John 6: 24-71