Joshua's challenge to 'choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve'(Joshua 24:15) is one that we all need to look at and remember that it is also the challenge we need to respond to each and every day. It is issued at this point for a reason. He is about to 'let the people depart, each to his own inheritance.' Joshua 24:28 He knows that they have been serving God under his leadership but that now they will be making the same day to day choices to serve Him on their own. Will they look to God each day, each decision? He challenges them to choose THIS day to serve God.
THIS is the day we all need to consider. Will He be the one we follow? Will He be the one we serve today? THIS is the day we need to decide about. Here, now, today's choice is the one that matters. Joshua knew all about their past victories with God and he knew that wouldn't guarantee future ones without the right choice to serve Him each and every day. He knew that each battle and therefore each victory came because He had chosen to serve God on that day, that battle. He had chosen to listen and to obey each word that God had spoken.
This is the day we decide to serve Him. THIS is the day that matters! Will we serve Him today?
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