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Jeremiah chapter 21 verse 8 and to this people you shall say

thus says the Lord,

behold I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

That is maybe one of the most simple pictures that we see really in all the Bible and we see at different

points but it's the reality that's before us.

Ultimately there is a way of life and there's a way of death.

The way of death is sin, trusting in ourselves, turning from God. The way of life is the exact opposite.

Repentance, turning away from our sin and ourselves.

Trusting, not in in ourselves but in God and his provision through

Christ for our salvation and the way the truth and the life Jesus taught us. So there's a way of life and there's a way of death.

And ultimately we have a choice to make. Will we trust God and receive life? Will we trust in Jesus as the

life or will we turn from God? And experience death. Will we turn away from Jesus as the life and trust in ourselves in a way that leads to death?

Like this is the ultimate question in life and it certainly is is crystallized in a sense at the moment when we

decide to trust in Jesus when we we decide to become a follower of Jesus when we

become a Christian a follower of Christ, we place our faith in him, we call

out for him to forgive us of our sins and we lay our lives down before him as Lord.

So that's choosing life.

And then the reality is that point in time

then begins a process daily overtime where we wake up in the morning and we say today I'm

going to live in the life that I've been given because we're still prone to go

back toward death to go back toward death, to go back toward sin, to go back towards

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