Which of these two lists best describes your life?

LIST #1
You are cursed in the city.
You are cursed in the field and gardens.
Your basket (provisions) are not full, and bread does not come easily.
Your children are problematic. They will move away and not help you.
Your efforts do not produce good things.
You experience disease and illness, constantly battling for better health.
Nothing you do helps to get ahead, not even a little bit. 
Your enemies get the best of you.
Your mind is not at ease. 
Your ways are not prosperous. You falter in nearly everything, no matter how hard you try.
Other people take advantage of the things you do have.
Your spouse is not loyal to you. Marriage is an unsuccessful venture and is difficult. 
Animals are not loyal to you, and do not add value to your life.
You are placed under authorities who do not look out for your best interests.
You are driven to anger by the things you see and experience, but you cannot change any of it.
You are not a leader, and are subject to the leadership of others, no matter how hard you try.
You have a trembling heart and a despairing spirit.

LIST #2
You receive blessings in the city.
You receive blessings in the fields and gardens. 
You have children who are honorable and productive in this life.
Your baskets (provisions) are full, and your bread making is productive and good.
Offspring of your livestock will be healthy and your herds will increase.
You are blessed when you come in.
You are blessed when you go out.
Your enemies cannot harm you.
Everything you try to do is successful and productive.
Other people notice that your life is a blessing.
You will be a leader in all that you do.

Which of these two lists do you identify with the most?
Which of these two lists best describes your life?
Would you rather partake of the other list?
How do you change from a life of curses to a life of blessings?

I compiled these two lists by paraphrasing Deuteronomy 28.
God sets before us choices of life and blessings, or death and curses.
He does not choose which list belongs to us. We get to choose for ourselves which list we will live out.

Deuteronomy 11:26-28 tells us how to make this choice:
26 “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse— 27 the blessing, if you listen to the commands of ADONAI your God that I am commanding you today, 28 but the curse, if you do not listen to the commands of ADONAI your God, but turn from the way I am commanding you today, to go after other gods you have not known.”

And again in Deuteronomy 30:19 -20
“I call the heavens and the earth to witness about you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live, 20 by loving ADONAI your God, listening to His voice, and clinging to Him.”

And I’ll end with the words of our Messiah:
Rev 22:14
Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.

John 14:21
He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

John 10:27-30
“My sheep hear My voice. I know them, and they follow Me. 28 I give them eternal life! They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. And no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”

John 15:7-11
7 “If you abide in Me and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you. 8 In this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be My disciples.”
9 “Just as the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you. Abide in My love! 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 11 These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and your joy may be full.

Luke 11:28
But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

And a Proverb for good measure:
Proverbs 19:16
He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul,
But he who is careless of his ways will die.

Proverbs 3:1-2
My son, do not forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commands.
For length of days and years of life,
and peace they will add to you.

And what do the prophets think?
Jeremiah 7:23-24
‘Obey My voice and I will be your God to you and you will be My people. Walk in all the ways that I command you that it may go well with you.’ 24 But they did not listen or pay attention. Instead they followed their own counsel, in the stubbornness of their evil heart. They have gone backward and not forward…

Life and the circumstances of life are not random.
Will you choose life or death today?
Will you choose blessing or curse today?

Joshua 24:15
“But as for me and my household, we will worship Adonai!”