“A choice is set before you now, living or dying, blessing or cursing. You know, the time has come around to turn from your fighting and rest in his mercy. Choose Life, that you might live!” (Song by Big Tent Revival)
I really sense the Father wants to send this message to YOU: “Choose Life for this is the time to cease from fighting, struggling and believing the lie that you don’t matter. Stop fleeing from this life and know that your Creator is pursuing you to reach up into His arms of healing and love. He knows all the places of your pain, your devastating disappointments, and your shattering rejection. The Father is trying to get your attention and your devotion to “Choosing this Life.”
Let Your Hand be ready to help, For I have chosen Your precepts. Psalm 119:173 (The Message)
The Father has not left you carelessly drifting or has not disregarded you nor forgotten you for He is willing to do whatever it takes to bring YOU back to Him. He recognizes your spiritual fire has gone out! He sees how you have withdrawn to a life of isolation and seclusion! This day the Father is calling out your name to “Choose Life” and to “Live the Life He has originally created you for.” He sees the areas of your lack of freedom to be yourself, He sees the inability to accept who you are in Him, and He sees the deep wounds and responses to Him, to others, and to this life.
He knows the way you have embraced your feelings of unattractiveness, your unlovable outlook about yourself. He also watches the places you are affected spiritually, physically, and emotionally, and it causes Him such pain and grief over your sorrow and loss of life. The Father is trying to get your attention because He doesn’t want you to live life any longer feeling indifferent, insignificant, and unimportant.
Beloved, He is singing out to you today: “Trust the Lord with all your heart, with all your soul and with all of your being today. Choose Life from the one who chose you first.” He did not make a mistake, He did not just say “oops” or “oh no,” but what He did say is: “I have called you, I have chosen you, I have selected you, and I have plans for YOU.” Father is saying, I have a hold on YOU. I have My firm grip on YOU, and I’m not letting YOU go. You are constantly in My thoughts, for I have shaped you inside and out, and I have formed you, and YOU are breathtakingly beautiful. I know every bone in your body, every hair on your head and how marvelously and magnificently He has made YOU! Choose Life, arise and live life, and walk forward into life for YOU will discover that God is already there ahead of you.
The Father is aggressively searching for YOU and intentionally calling YOU to “Choose Life” so that the weight you’re under will be lifted away. The fear and struggle of being known and desired is something He is lovingly healing and lovingly soothing within you so YOUR true identity can come into reality. Choose Life, His Beloved, because you are His gift to life.
Father is saying the greatest relationship you will ever have is with Him because He is forever faithful to be with you every step of the way. His faithfulness is eternal, perpetual, and paternal, and He knows every area you need Him to release, to restore, and to redeem comfort, hope and love to your heart. Come to Him in your weariness, in your pain, and in your wariness and Choose Life today! That’s how much you mean to me! That’s how much I love you!
I’d sell off the whole world to get you back, trade the creation just for you.
So don’t be afraid: I’m with you. Isaiah 43:4-5 (The Message)
Father, I pray for each one that can feel the weight of this life, the sorrows of hurts, and the places of offenses in their circumstances. Sweet Jesus, release them from their places of wounds and rebuild and restore the cracks within their hearts and replace the necessary basic trust. Allow forgiveness to flow and heal. Reach down sovereignly to minister Your comfort, nurture, and assistance to their hearts to feel the strength of Your Spirit flowing into their spirit. Father, help them to Choose Life so they can see themselves as the gift to life, to You, to others, and to themselves. Amen