Your Choices for Today are....

     Mary Flynn, one of the long time missionaries from Mali retired and went back to Elkins, West Virginia. After getting set up, she decided to go to the local grocery store to purchase a box of cereal. She walked into the store and began to look at the two aisles filled with cereal. You could get flakes, squares, round, cooked, uncooked, sweet, in individual boxes or large containers. After standing there for a period of time, Mary walked out of the store without a box of cereal. In Mali, Mary had only one choice when picking out cereal at a local store. The only one they had was Kellogg's Corn Flakes. We found this to also be true in Spain. So, after 30 years of eating Corn Flakes, Mary couldn't make up her mind what to choose. Joshua 24:15 says, “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

           It has been recently pointed out to us in a Bible Class that God made us with the ability to choose. I make many choices each and every day from the time I get up, to the clothes I put on, to the meals I prepare and how I am going to spend my day. They are all choices. Choices have consequences. If I choose to purchase a very large container of cheerios at Sams, I am going to be eating Cheerios for the next three months. After all, I chose to purchase it. Since God made us with the ability to chose, we can also come to the conclusion that we can either chose to serve God or we can chose our own man made religion. When Joshua led the nation of Israel into Canaan, the land was filled with all kinds of pagan religions. In the final chapter of the book, Joshua made the above statement to the people. They had the choice to make and he left it up to them. They could serve the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob or they could serve the gods of the Philistines, Canaanites, Perizites and the Jebusites. Joshua went on to say, however, that as for himself and his family and all of his household, they had chosen to serve Jehovah, the LORD. You have a choice today and it is much like that of Joshua and all of the people of Israel. You can chose to serve the LORD God Almighty or you can chose to serve the gods of this world who have their own way which will eventually end up in destruction for all eternity. Yes, we have the ability to chose. You can chose your socks, your cereal, your cars and even where you live, but Whom will you chose to serve today? Praise God that He has given us His Word to show Whom it is that we should always be serving.