Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

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 then we see it 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 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.

This is the ultimate question in life.

And it certainly is crystallized in a sense at the moment when we decide to trust in Jesus,

when 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

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