The choice is ours

“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 might live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him.” Deuteronomy 30:19-20
At the end of his life, Moses took the opportunity to lay down before the children of Israel the blessings that would come if they would keep the law of God, and the curses that would come if they disobeyed His law. It must have been disheartening for him, knowing how unfaithful they had been during his own life, when they had seen miracle after miracle, and that if they continued on that track they would bring curses upon themselves and not the blessings that were available and God was longing to give them. Moses has done all that he can at this point, and so he encourages them to ‘choose life’.
Similarly we have the choice today of life or death. Surrender your life to Christ, and live; or keep going your own way, and find death. Jesus says, “For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it” (Luke 9:24). There are two options, but only one choice. And that choice is ours – God will not force it on us.