Today's 1st Reading - February 18, 2010

1st READING Life is all about choices. It is about showing the world where we stand when it comes to good and evil. We have to make a stand for good against evil. The key here is obedience to God. If we are willing to obey His Word and follow His will, we will always find ourselves on the side of good. If we choose otherwise, we will slide over to the side of evil. I do not want that for myself. What about you? Deuteronomy 30:15-20 15 Moses said to the people: “Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom.16 If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees, you will live and grow numerous, and the LORD, your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy. 17 If, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, but are led astray and adore and serve other gods, 18 I tell you now that you will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy. 19 I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, 20 by loving the LORD, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land which the LORD swore he would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”