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“Choose you this day whom ye will serve” (Joshua 24:15).
In our everyday lives, we are constantly compelled to make choices. We must decide what we are going to wear when we get up in the morning, what we are going to eat for breakfast, and what we are going to do with our time that day. Some of these choices are not too important. After all, does it really matter whether I have cereal or scrambled eggs for breakfast? But other choices are very important. The choice in our verse today was a challenge issued by Joshua to the children of Israel more than 3,000 years ago. Their ancestors had served idols in Ur of the Chaldees, and the Israelites themselves had worshiped idols in Egypt. Then, as soon as they came out of Egypt, they made a golden calf to worship. (They had learned how to worship the cow in Egypt.)
Now they were told to make a choice: would they serve the Lord, or continue to worship idols? You and I might never think of making a literal idol, but we may go after things in this world that can be like idols to us. They take our time, money, and strength, and rob us of what we should be doing for the Lord. How important it is to make the right choice, and serve the Lord!
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