Have you chosen life???

"Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded." ( James 4:8 ) Many of us are being taught that God will come to us, regardless of how we are living. This is a false teaching. We must make the choice to come to God through his Son, Jesus Christ. This requires hearing God's Word ( Romans 10:17); believing God's Word ( Mark 16:16); repenting of our sins ( Luke 13:3 ); confessing Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour ( Matthew 10:32, Romans 10:9 ); and being baptized for the remission of sin ( Acts 2:38 ). We can not draw closer to God while willfully living in sin. Do not be fooled into thinking that giving money and doing works while in sin is pleasing to God. Consider your time in study, prayer and meditation. Remember, " But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil. In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply, and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passeth over Jordan to go to possess it. 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." (Deuteronomy 31:14-19)