Rev. Ray and Pat Amos
Joshua 24:15
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
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“As for Me and My House, We Will Serve the LORD.”
Do you remember the game show where a person had a prize in hand but was given the opportunity to exchange it for what was behind another door? It sometimes worked out well, and other times they took a chance and lost something valuable for a prize of little worth.
The Bible calls us to make our choice: “Choose today who you will serve.” God refuses to allow us to dwell between two opinions: If Jesus is Lord, then choose Him, but if another is desired, then choose another. Either choice will lead to a destination. I know where Jesus is leading, and I will follow Him.
We can feel the sadness in Jesus’ words in the Gospel of John: “From that time many of His disciples went back and no longer walked with him. Then Jesus said to the twelve, ‘Do you also wish to go away?’ But Simon Peter answered Him, ‘Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.”
Defending our faith is not about out-talking the skeptics and unbelievers, but choosing to keep trusting and following the Lord no matter what others do.
To follow Christ is not just a choice that we made sometime in our past; it is a choice that is made with the rising of the sun every day. When Joshua said, “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve … But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD,” he was one hundred ten years old. It is quite clear that he had been serving the Lord, day by day, all those years.
It is the morning of a new day. “Will we choose Jesus for the living of this day?”
“O Jesus, Lord, and Savior,
I give myself to Thee,
For Thou, in Thy atonement
Didst give Thyself for me.
I own no other Master,
My heart shall be Thy throne,
My life I give, henceforth to live,
O Christ, for Thee alone.”
Grace and Peace, Rev Ray
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