You Have a Choice

 Joshua 24:15 “…Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve….But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

 Don’t you love that you get a choice?

 God doesn’t force anyone into service. You might say that some are ‘strongly encouraged’, but no one has the final choice made for them.

 The LORD loves us so much that the LORD desires a voluntary response motivated by a reciprocal love for God. “We love because God first loved us.”

 You have a choice. You can serve the gods worshiped by society, gods like profit, ego, possessions. Or you can choose the LORD, who commands love as his servants first and second priorities.

 Choices have consequences. That’s why we get to decide.

 Choosing to serve the LORD means that we make room to actively participate in worshipping communities. If our lives are so busy that we do not ‘have time’ to attend worship, whom have we chosen to serve?

 Serving the LORD means that we choose to love our enemies, care for the poor, and walk humbly.  Or do we prefer the choices society’s gods are offering: revenge, selfishness, and pride?

 Don’t you love that you get a choice?