Scripture:

Joshua 24:14-15

14 “Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of [a]the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of [b]the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

"Choose the Lord"

This decision has been laid out before us our whole lives, the act of free will.   God loved us so much that He created us with free will. See, love is the free will act of a person; we choose to love.  Joshua lays out before the people of God this truth that every day forward, you must choose for yourselves, for your family, whom you will serve.   I love that he makes a declaration, "as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!"   You and I need to declare this very thing: "We will serve you, Lord."  

The application today is in Joshua's declaration, to choose the Lord, to serve Him, to decide that the Lord is good, and to serve Him is the only choice for me.  "I must choose!"  Decide in my heart, when the world pulls at me, choose Him, when my desires try to drag me away, choose Him, when my old self tries to drag me away, choose Him.

Lord, I pray that we would always choose you, even when life is going great, that we would consciously choose you in our everyday life, in our everyday decisions, that we would choose you and the life that comes from that choice.  In Jesus' name, Amen!