We Will Serve the LORD

But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD (Joshua 24:15).

Joshua knows he is dying. He has led the Israelites into the Promised Land, helping them defeat the peoples of the land. Before he dies, he articulates the choice before Israel: follow the ways of the people of the world OR follow God. Choose.

This is when Joshua declares, “But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

Notice, that choosing one is the elimination of the other. There is only one LORD. One God. One who gets to say how we are to live. Either we will live by the dictates and values of the world around us, or we will live by the dictates and values of the LORD.

Choose.

Moms and dads of the Little Church and Lakewoodgrace, you leading your family to love and worship God in your home is your primary ministry. Help your children choose the LORD, choose worship, choose obedience. Do this through your priorities and your actions.

If your child were to say to you, I don’t want to go to school. It’s boring there. I don’t like the teacher. I don’t like the kids there. What do you say? Do you, therefore, let the child decide whether they are going to get an education or not?

Of course not!!!

Education is important. Education is essential for the future of your child.

Your child’s relationship with Jesus is important. It is beyond essential. It’s a matter of eternity. Don’t mess around with your child’s eternal destiny. Set an example and set a tone for how you and your household will serve the LORD. Do not follow the patterns of this world.

Love what Spurgeon wrote: You are as much serving God in making your household a church for God as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.

Choose.

Choose to serve the LORD.