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Hello Everyone,

Our declaration for this week is Choose You This Year! Read with me:

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. KJV

It was not only a new day for the Jews, but a new year...a new era! 

But the choices they make at this critical juncture will affect many others for a long time.

Although the people of God had not yet completed the conquest of the Promised Land, they were restless. Some of the people were strong in the faith, making a difference for God in their society.

There were others who had sold out body and soul to contemporary thoughts, morals and practices.

And in between the two were a large group of their countrymen who had made no clear decision as to where they stood in relation to God.

To this group Joshua address his remarks urging them to move beyond indecision and restlessness, to a clear-cut decision for GOD.

All 3 groups still exist today.  Which one are you in?  How about your house?  I can only speak for my house. 

Why is it that right decisions are more difficult to make than wrong ones?

Someone said that the path of least resistance is what makes people and rivers crooked.

Some of the decisions that we make in life are not that earth shattering, history will see little difference in the cereal you chose to eat for breakfast, but there are choices in life that are important, even life altering.

These are choices made by every human being. And we have to live with the consequences.

Joshua begins by rehearsing for them all what God had done for them. vv. 3-13

He is asking them to examine the facts and then decide. Joshua’s primary concern is crystal-clear; He wants them to know who the real God is.

It is not with the might of their swords or bows that the victory has been won, but by the POWER of God. God had done it ALL.

But the people nevertheless have to choose God for themselves – intelligently, decisively and willingly.

This is the God who made heaven and earth.

This is the God who loved man too much to leave him in his sin.

This is the God who demonstrated His love by sending His only Son to earth to live among us.

This is the God who knew that we could never earn our way into heaven by good works, so He went to the cross bearing our sins.

This is the God whom the grave could not hold, and rose victoriously from it.

This is the God who established the church and who is coming back in the form of His Son to bring all of human history to a culmination.

This is the God that we are called to serve.

Greater Things Are Still To Come!