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She Chose to be Cursed

In his book Right People, Right Place, Right Plan, Pastor Jentezen Franklin says that when God wants to bless you he send a person, and when the devil wants to curse you, he also send a person.

I had an experience in my life which serves for me as the perfect example of that principal. Many years ago, I was involved with a girl, let's call her Y. She liked me first, but because I was my usual diffident self, she became secretly involved with M. I eventually felt as if God intended for she and I to be together, so I reciprocated her advances. Things went well for a while then all hell broke loose. She eventually had a choice to make, and she chose him. What had he brought into her life? He got her smoking, caused her to have a pregnancy scare, and abused her. He hurt her. Those don't exactly sound like blessings. That's a very far cry from what she'd have had with me.

In this scenario, I was there for her blessing. God intended to bless her and move her into a higher level, and he had sent me as the conduit. M was the cursing -- just look at all the negatives and pain he brought into her life. The devil intended to curse Y, and M was the conduit for it. At a certain point, she began to blame me for what he was doing to her. I'd show up and he'd abuse her, but instead of blaming the abuser, she blamed me for "causing" the abuse. Astoundingly enough, despite all he was putting her through, despite what she'd have had with me, she chose the cursing. She chose to be cursed.

It reminds me of when Moses said, "I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life." (Deuteronomy 30:19) Most people take that as being from God. I like the way I heard one preacher put it, "God said you can have blessings or you can have cursings, you can have life -- and that more abundantly -- or you can have death. And just in case you didn't get it, he gives you a little hint: choose life!" Yet so many people chose death.

It astounds me how many people chose to be cursed. Look at all the people who chose to use methamphetamine and cocaine and all sorts of other drugs despite what it does to them, despite how it destroys their bodies, their spirits, and their lives. Yet they willingly choose that for themselves. Look at how many people chose to smoke, despite every single box of cigarettes having a message on it: "Hey, dummy, this stuff is going to kill you if you use it." Would you digest a product that said right on it, by the way this will kill you? Look at how many people do. And, of course, there's the biggest death product of all: sin itself, which comes with the blaring warning, "The wages of this thing is death!"

"Chose life," says God. They chose death by the billions. I don't get that.

Back to Y for a moment. Take the God element out of it, take me out of it, just look objectively at what M was doing to her and her life. By any objective measure you would look at that and say, "This guy is horrible for you, look at what he's doing to you! You've got to get away from this jerk!" But still, she chose death, she chose cursing. That's so sad. I'm not even mad at her for what she did to me, I'm just really sad about what she did to herself, what she cost herself. I find it very interesting that, as per Pastor Franklin, God intended to bless Y and the devil intended to curse her. It's almost as if they were waging a little war over her life and future, and she chose
death. Amazing.

Take the God element out of the sins listed above, by any objective standard taking drugs and smoking are disastrous for a person's life. They are the obvious path to ruin and destruction. You don't need God holding up a sign to see that -- yet hold up the sign God does. And people willingly rush into the jaws of death. I honestly don't get it.

In the quote from Deuteronomy, God equates blessings with life and cursing with death. Chose blessing, get life. Chose cursing (and sin), you get death. I suggest you choose blessing, I suggest you chose life. I'm reminded of St Paul's advice to the Phillipians, "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." (Phillipians 4:8)

Good advice. Why won't the world take it?

(Romans 10:9, John 3:17, John 5:24, John 1:12)

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