Deuteronomy 11:26 says, Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; Moses said that day he set before the people of Israel a choice. They could either choose a blessing or a curse, One day, everyone faces that same choice. Verse Verse twenty-seven adds, A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: Moses said that they could choose a blessing by obeying the commandments of the LORD which he set before them that day. We today can choose the blessings of God if we accept Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord when God calls us to Him, and then we will want to obey His commandments. Verse twenty-eight continues, And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. Moses said they could also choose a curse by not obeying God and going after other gods, false gods, that they had not known. If we choose not to accept Jesus Christ today and to obey God's commandments, we choose a curse of being forever separated from God by going after false gods. The choice is ours, and not God's. He has already chosen to provide salvation for us, but He will never force us to accept it. Verse twenty-nine states, And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. Moses said that they were to pronounce the blessings from Mount Gerazim and the curses from Mount Ebal, setting up a clear choice for them and I believe showing that they were separated from the rest of the nations. We have the same clear choice today. Verse thirty adds, Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? Moses asked if these mountains were not on the other side of the Jordan. When we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord, we are figuratively on the other side of the Jordan. Heaven is our home, and we are just continuing to pass through this world. Verse thirty-one continues, For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein. Moses said that they must first pass over the Jordsn by faith for God's promises to come true, and we today must first accept Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord for God's promises to come true. Verse thirty-two concludes, And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day. Mose said that when they crossed over the Jordan that they were to obey all the statutes and judgments of God that he set before them that day if they expected God to continue to bless them. After we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord, God expects us to keep all His statutes and judgments under the power and leadership of the Holy Spirit. Just as the people of Israel were not free to do whatever they wanted once the crossed over Jordan into the Promised Land, neither are we once we accept Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord.
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