You Get A Daily Choice!

All right.  No more devo skipping for me, DevoZine or no DevoZine!    Biblegateway.com has a verse of the day that I’ll use from here on out until I get the DevoZines in the mail.

Nov 8 – Joshua 24:15

But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.

It’s interesting to me that Joshua truly lays this before the people.  He gives them a choice – “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve.”  The wonderful and frightening thing is that we are each given this choice every single day.  The choice we make daily will determine many of our actions and will influence the ways we interact with people.  Jesus addresses this point in Luke 9:23 when he says, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” [italics mine]  What happens if you choose to follow Jesus?  How do you act?  What about if you choose to follow something else?  Maybe you would rather not choose, but a famous Bob Dylan song speaks true - ”You Gotta Serve Somebody.” 

The other thing that stands out to me about this verse is the last line – “As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”  Joshua takes a strong stance here.  He makes a statement as the spiritual leader of the household and declares where his family stands.  This is the kind of firm commitment we need to make in our lives each day and it is the kind of commitment parents make that creates a family founded on faith.  What kind of faith home are you in now?  What kind of faith home did you grow up in?  How did that influence what your faith means to you now?  I encourage you to make that commitment or at least to explore what it would mean for your life.  Now is a great time be asking questions!