Joshua 24:14–15
"Therefore, fear the LORD and worship Him in sincerity and truth. Get rid of the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and worship the LORD. But if it doesn’t please you to worship the LORD, choose for yourselves today the one you will worship: the gods your fathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my family, we will worship the LORD."
You can hear the resolve in Joshua’s voice. Sadly, this kind of resolve seems to be missing in our society today. If this were being written today it might sound like this: “As for me and my family, we will worship the LORD if He blesses us with a great job and a comfortable income and a fine home and two vacations a year and He leaves me alone so I can enjoy these.” We lack the resolve today to endure hardship and stand faithful when things are not going our way. We no longer have that kind of commitment and strength. We have been taught a more comfortable doctrine. We feast on convenient truth. We live with our shades pulled down so we don’t have to look on the outside world. We ride on our heated leather seats listening to our Bose speakers playing “I’d make any sacrifice for You.” We are a clueless generation of Christians. We have lived selfishly. We have spent our lives on our own lusts. Now we shake our heads as we watch the news and wonder how we got in this shape. We are the clueless generation.
Where is the commitment of Joshua? You can hear the resolve in his voice: “As for me and my family—no matter what comes—we will serve the LORD!”
Do you have that kind of “no matter what” commitment? Do I?
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