Choose Whom You Will Serve

“…choose you this day whom ye will serve…”
Joshua 24.15

We know that every choice of man was first purposed by God, and that none choose to serve the Lord except by the grace of God. But this does not alter the fact that we must and do choose, and not just once, but every day. Serving the Lord is not a one-time affair, so choosing to serve Him must be our continual purpose. Each day we must resist the temptation to serve ourselves or any other false god set before us and commit ourselves afresh to Him Who loved us and gave Himself for us. Faithfulness to the Lord does not come by accident. In our flesh, we are no more inclined to serve Him now than before we knew Him. Let us then, in our spirits and by His Spirit, commit ourselves to Him anew, and each and every day purposefully choose to serve the Lord.