Deuteronomy 30:15-20 / Luke 9:22-25
The word "today" can sound ordinary or significant, depending on how it is used in the context.
Especially if it is emphasized, then that word has a powerful and profound meaning.
In the 1st reading, the word "today" appeared three times in the passage, and all at the significant parts.
That word in the passage has an urgency; it implies the moment is now, a decision has to be made immediately, and a commitment is required.
All that urgency is not about a deadline or or about speed and haste. It's about life and death, obedience and defiance, blessing and curse.
In the gospel, Jesus would even emphasize that urgency by telling us to take up our cross every day and follow Him.
So it means that everyday there will be the cross.
But we have to decide if it's going to be the cross or the world for us.
Yes, we have to decide, today and everyday.