The Decision Makers

Reading:   Deuteronomy 30

The message of agency is hammered and pounded and beat upon constantly with repetitive force and an ever-growing fervor but do we actually listen?

DEUTERONOMY 30:15, 19

15    See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 

19    I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 

"Choose life, that thou and thy seed may live!"
This refrain does not echo in the existence of individualism but in the generations of, "...thy seed."  Your choices, your actions, your ripple of movement in the sea of existence may cause a tsunami of regret in generations to come - don't be that guy!

In his talk, A Loving, Communicating God (1992 October General Conference), Marion D. Hanks said...

Our Heavenly Father desires that all mankind be led by the light, but that blessing will not be imposed upon anyone. Christ stands at the door and knocks; those who wish to have him enter and sup with them must hear his voice and "open the door." (Rev. 3:20.) Thus two great principles on which the gospel is centered, love and agency, are plainly taught. Each of us is here to learn to love and give and hearken to the Spirit and choose to do the will of the Father. God wants his offspring and heirs to become all that we can be, to qualify for our inheritance. But we must choose; we are the decision makers, and he will not relieve that responsibility...

We must choose...
We are the decision makers...
May your choices echo life and good in the coming eternity!

~Kipling

...200 Days and counting...take that you naysayers!