Choose Life
“I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
~Deuteronomy 30:19-20
“If you love Me, keep My commandments.”
~John 14:15
“Often our conscious resolutions to change come to nothing because we don’t know ourselves. We all have powerful dynamisms or energies operating in us—the need to live, or to love and be loved, or to be happy. We may have a disproportionate need for security or acceptance. We may hate and love ourselves at the same time. To begin, with the help of the Holy Spirit, to know ourselves better is to prepare the ground for deeper conversion.
Get to know yourself, and make this Lent a time of choosing, of going down inside and asking, Do I really choose life? Do I really keep the commandments as Christ indicated they must be kept by those who love Him?”
~Benedict Groeschel
~Deuteronomy 30:19-20
“If you love Me, keep My commandments.”
~John 14:15
“Often our conscious resolutions to change come to nothing because we don’t know ourselves. We all have powerful dynamisms or energies operating in us—the need to live, or to love and be loved, or to be happy. We may have a disproportionate need for security or acceptance. We may hate and love ourselves at the same time. To begin, with the help of the Holy Spirit, to know ourselves better is to prepare the ground for deeper conversion.
Get to know yourself, and make this Lent a time of choosing, of going down inside and asking, Do I really choose life? Do I really keep the commandments as Christ indicated they must be kept by those who love Him?”
~Benedict Groeschel
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