Living for Christ takes one decision. Deciding to live for Christ is to choose eternity. Everything else fails, but God’s word remains the same. So Jesus remains. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God.
We must decide who we are serving! Anything that controls us becomes our master. If money controls us, if sex controls us, if relationships control us, then that thing that controls us becomes the thing we serve.
So Joshua is at crossroads with the Israelites. He gives them an ultimatum. Man, we’ve been playing for too long. Joshua was cool like that. I mean, the Israelites had survived through Moses and some stuff went down. Sometimes they were obedient, most times they disobeyed. So yeah, they were at crossroads. It was either God or nothing!
Choosing Jesus is securing eternity. I couldn’t be more serious about that. Not choosing Jesus, is choosing damnation. I mean, how sad would it be that we had a chance to choose and settled for less? Not choosing is also equivalent to refusing Jesus. We either choose Him or nothing.
Could it be that Jesus was forcing us to choose Him? No! It’s entirely dependent on us. How foolish would it be to deny someone that died for us? What makes us skeptical about God’s plan for our lives is forgetfulness. We always have to be reminded about the importance of serving God.
Joshua 24:15 New Living Translation (NLT)
15 But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods of your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.”I love Joshua. If he were an Avenger, he’d be captain America. There was no time to joke or play around. You either had to choose God or whatever that’s on your agenda. It’s like having multiple choice questions, it doesn’t matter how similar the answers and how many options we have, there’s only correct answer.
We might have so many things and many alternatives. Maybe we are stuck with ideas of how we’d get to heaven, but there’s only one way of getting there. Its multiple choice questions all over again.
I hated MCQs for so many reasons. I was in middle school, the seventh grade. We had to write national exams and the subjects only had multiple choice questions. Usually the questions were easy to understand, what was difficult was how to answer them. To begin with, the answers were all so similar, it would easier believing there was no answer to the questions asked.
But the truth is that the answers were there. And I had to answer. If I left the question unanswered, I’d obviously lose marks. If I chose B and it was the wrong answer, there was no going back. Whatever letters I chose would determine whether or not I passed. Multiple choice questions are hard. To me at least.
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