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The Definite Choice Read: Joshua 24:15-24 Bible in a Year: Joshua 22-24; Luke 3 . We will serve the Lord! Joshua 24.21 Coming from someone who used to value ancestral gods, my 90-year-old father's statement near the end of his life was remarkable: When I die, he spoke laboriously, nobody should do anything other than what the church will do. No soothsaying, no ancestral sacrifices, no rituals. As my life is in the hands of Jesus Christ, so shall my death be! My father chose the path of Christ in his old age when he invited Jesus into his life as Savior. His contemporaries mocked him: An old man like you shouldn't be going to church! But my father's choice to follow and worship the true God was definite, like the people Joshua addressed. Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, Joshua challenged them. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord 24.15. Their response was resolute they chose to worship the Lord. Even after Joshua warned them to count the cost vv.19-20, they still resolved to follow the Lord, recalling His deliverance, provision, and protection vv.16-17,21. Such a confident choice, however, calls for equally confident actions, as Joshua strongly reminded them: Put away the foreign gods . . . and incline your heart to the Lord v.23. Have you made a choice to live for God? Teach me all it means, Lord, to choose You. I want my words, actions, and attitudes to show the love for You that I have in my heart. You are worthy of far more than I could ever do. A definite choice demands definite actions. 
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