Choose whom you will serve

"But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then 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.'" Joshua 24:15 NIV

"Everyone complains about 2020." My runner friend, Jill, recently posted. "But really people just like to complain about anything.... 2020 has been such an amazing year of growth. Really...what do you know about yourself if you don't learn how to change and be a better human? Reading my memories.. (I still hate sappy). The past year has been awesome. I couldn’t ask for better new friends... new adventures... new goals... and new habits... that I made the past year." This just goes to show that life is what we make it, right? I mean, this past year has been full of changes and challenges for everyone. But each and everyone of us have had a choice to make amidst those changes and challenges... and that choice was to use them as stepping stones to become better or to complain about them and do nothing—thereby missing one of the greatest opportunities for growth we have ever experienced. 

And you know, when it comes to choices or making decisions when faced with two or more possibilities, there is one choice that every single person will have to make in his or her lifetime... to serve the one true God of the universe or to serve the many false gods of this world. You can't do both as Joshua clearly laid out to the Israelites when he said, "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." In other words, just like the Israelites, you must decide whether you will pursue the temporary gods of fame, money, status and other sinful pleasures this world offers or to lay them all aside to follow the Lord. The choice is yours. 

So choose this day whom you will serve my friend. As for me, I, like Joshua, will most definitely, "serve the LORD." There's nothing this world can offer that is greater than what awaits me and every other person who makes the same decision for doing so. 

Heavenly Father, thank You for choosing to love us despite our sinfulness. In return, may we choose to serve You rather than the things of this world. Please cause us to know that this world is passing away and that our choice to follow the temporary things it offers will only lead to eternal separation from You in the end. It's in your precious name we pray Jesus. Amen. 

Happy Running!!!

Nothing Compares - Third Day