-- Sunday, 6/27/10 -- CHOOSE FOR YOURSELVES THIS DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE -- Joshua 24:15
J.R. & Bonnie Ricks
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CHOOSE FOR YOURSELVES THIS DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE -- Joshua 24:15 NIV
"But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods of your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you ar living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."
In every person's life there comes a day when he has to make a choice about who he is going to serve. As a matter of fact, that choice comes up daily... sometimes hourly... sometimes moment by moment. The good thing is, God didn't make you and me puppets. He gave us a choice as to whether we would serve Him or not. He left the decision up to us. That's also the tough thing in our lives.
It's difficult to make that choice day after day after day. Because the wrong way usually looks a lot more tempting... or easy... or fun... As a matter of fact, sin is fantastic fun! It is! No, you say? Well, if it's no fun, then why do you and I keep doing it over and over again? That's what makes the choice so difficult. For some reason, it's a lot easier to remember how much fun a particular sin was the last time we did it than it is to remember how horrible the consequences were. It's a lot easier to blow your stack at someone than to count to ten and approach the situation calmly. It's a lot more fun to shop till you drop and run your credit cards up to their limit than it is do without those things you want until you an afford to pay cash for them. It's a lot easier to repeat an ugly rumor about someone than it is to stop and pray for that person. It's a lot easier to go along with the crowd than it is to take a stand for Jesus. And those are just examples of surface evidence to a deeper problem… the inability to choose.
Joshua was telling the people, "You have to make a choice... right now. You have to choose whom you will serve with your life. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
How about you? Have you made that choice yet? And if so, do you continue to make it daily in everything that you do? If not, it's time to choose.
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