While we make many small choices every day, we pause over only a few major ones in life. Joshua laid such a judgement before the children of Israel:

Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.

Of a select group of monumentous life decisions, this one stands as the pinnacle. Everything flows downhill from here. Joshua stood resolute. Despite what anyone else decided, he and his family intended to follow the ways of the Lord.

It’s best to resolve whom we’ll serve before life crashes around us. Because crash it will, and we won’t have time to think. To choose the Lord, and to remain in this position, settles and solidifies ourselves and our families.

It’s one decision you won’t regret.

Joshua 24 in reading the Bible in 2023

Photo by Jason Hogan