But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua 24:15
Each day we have many choices to make. What will I wear? What will I eat? I swear I have to check the weather app every morning to figure out what to wear, it may be raining, snowing, or sleeting. One choice I don’t think about as often on a daily basis is, who am I serving?
Today’s reading in Joshua 24 tells us to choose today who we will serve. If I don’t actively make a choice every single day to serve God, then who or what am I actually choosing?
We are each responsible for our life and our own relationship with God. We get to make the choice to choose God and follow Him wholeheartedly. Will I commit to serve God? Or will I commit to serve my desires, money, relationships, work, status, or success, or any other gods our culture worships?
The choice is ours and we will reap the consequences of the choices we make. Every morning as I have to make decisions, the most important decision should be to choose whom I will serve on this day. I honor God and bring Him glory when I choose to serve Him first.