Deuteronomy 29-30: The Lord is Your Life

This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. - Deut. 30:19-20

This sums it up for me.  The Lord is my life.  Apart from him, I have nothing, I am nothing.  Not just in a material, physical sense, but in the essence of life sense.  I've tried it the other way.  There is no life in going it on my own.  There is no life in any other possibility that can be offered to me.

My heart has no choice but to echo Simon Peter's words.   “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. - John 6:68 NIV

While I believe the promise that he will give us many years in this land, it pales in comparison to seeing him face to face.  My prayer is that at the end of my life, I will run to him, like a child runs into the arms of their daddy.  As the Marys discovered, there is no stone blocking the tomb.  He has the key.  He is my life in the here and now and in eternity.

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