Discipleship: Choosing God’s Life

What kind of choice is discipleship? What are we choosing when we choose to be followers of Jesus?

Being a follower of Jesus, a disciple of Jesus, is choosing God’s life for us over and above choosing our own way of life. When we choose God’s life for us, we choose to really live.

In the fifth book of the law, Deuteronomy, God spoke to Moses and the people of Israel, saying, “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.” (Deuteronomy 30:15-16, ESV).

Following God and his law leads to life and blessing.

As followers of Jesus, when we choose God, we choose God’s best life for us.

Discipleship is choosing God’s life for us instead of choosing our own way of life, or choosing evil and death, when God has something far better for us.

As disciples of Jesus, may we choose God’s life of blessing for us instead of choosing our own way.

A Collect for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, or the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 18): “O Lord God, grant your people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to follow you, the only God; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2013).

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