It's Your Choice

Read: Joshua 24:1-5

Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve. --- Joshua 24:15

The Bible In One Year:
Isaiah 65-66
1 Timothy 2

As Joshua was nearing the end of his life, he gathered the children of Israel together at Shechem. And there, from the lips of a man who was close to death, came an appeal that throughout the centuries has moved the hearts of many. Joshua said, "Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve" [Joshua 24:15].

This challenge, viewed in the light of the New Testament, suggests three outstanding lessons regarding our salvation. First, we must make a choice between God and the devil. To refuse Christ leaves us automatically on the devil's side. Jesus said, "He who is not with Me is against Me" [Matthew 12:30].

Second, this choice is a personal choice. Joshua said, "Choose for yourselves .. whom you will serve." Through faith in Jesus Christ, we can be born again and become a child of God. But we must do the believing ourselves.

Third, there is an urgency in this charge. "Choose for yourselves this day," not next month, not a week from today, not tomorrow, but this day.

Have you made that all-important choice? Have you trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior? If not, do so right now! Remember, the choice is yours. --- Richard De Haan

If I the King of heaven choose,
If I the things of earth refuse,
The best I gain, the worst I lose ---
The choice is mine. --- Stanphill

NOW IS THE TIME TO CHOOSE THE LORD --- TOMORROW MAY BE TOO LATE.