“SERVE THE LORD!”

Joshua 24:14-15                                        (ESV)

CHOOSE Whom You Will Serve

“[14] “Now therefore FEAR THE LORD and serve HIM in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and “SERVE THE LORD”. [15] And IF IT IS EVIL IN YOUR EYES to serve the LORD, CHOOSE THIS DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, WE WILL “SERVE THE LORD”.””

CHOOSING to “SERVE THE LORD” when our options are limited might be more predictable than when our minds are FREE to do what WE THINK is best.  Being “Brain Damaged” gives me a totally different perspective to observe things.  Doing what WE THINK is best can be what WE THINK is best for us??  After all, GOD would not give us thoughts that HE didn’t want us to follow, WOULD HE???

But “SERVE THE LORD” doesn’t mean to figure out the most prosperous path and blaze ahead with tremendous fervor, expecting GOD to make our journey smooth and without resistance.  Following “the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell” can be exactly what “the enemy” would prefer us to do.  Doing what we are CREATED for, to SERVE THE LORD”, is the ONLY way to fulfill the CALLING each of us has IN CHRIST!

Imagine had the Apostle Paul continued doing what he THOUGHT was the right thing to do?  Peter was destined to be “a fisherman “!  Luke was  a physician.  Our “chosen path” can change once we have been CHOSEN!  When we have been CHOSEN to “SERVE THE LORD”, our future is USUALLY not what we thought it was going to be!  Be ready!  If you are CALLED to “SERVE THE LORD”, HIS PLAN will probably REVEAL a new direction for your life!!!