Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live! -Deuteronomy 30:19
I’ve moved a lot of times. When you move, you have to grieve what you’ve left behind, yet you still have to choose whole-heartedly to enter into the new place. You have to decide daily to let-go of the life you had, and embrace the new life God has for you. It’s similar with our hearts. Many times, God is calling us to new seasons, new challenges, and new “lands.” Sometimes we get stuck dwelling on what “could’ve” been or frankly go back to old ways of thinking.
In Deuteronomy, God is giving us a choice to either reject or accept his covenantal relationship with him. He is saying that we can CHOOSE life with him, which in turn means we are choosing LOVE. We can choose peace, and joy. WE can choose to leave bad habits behind, and move on to experience more freedom. Yet, why is it so hard? It starts with accepting our circumstances, realizing that we aren’t victim to them, and then choosing LIFE through him today.
![We were gifted a Savior which is Christ the Lord, our sin-bearer who died a death so that we may live and have eternal life. Humanity needed a Savior of their sins and his name was Jesus. Jesus name means, “Yahweh saves.” In the Old Testament, Joshua saves his people from the Canaanites, he foreshadows the real Jeshua/Jesus who saves the world from their sins.
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In the Christmas story, we are familiar with this passage, “Give him the name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21) As we continue to reflect on the names of Jesus, let us grasp the fullness of what he came to do. He came in humility a small babe, a common man with a common name, and yet the significance/meaning of the name could only be fulfilled through him. Only he has the power to save. Many were named Jeshua, but there is only ONE who lives up to the meaning of this name: Savior.
Luke 2:11 says, “for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” Christ the Lord, an anointed prophet, king, and priest came as a baby to save us from our sins.
Jesus name was common, he lived a common life, yet despite other people having this name, salvation is exclusive to him and he is anything but common, “Yahweh saves.” #chasingsacred](https://www.chasingsacred.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
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