Choose - Joshua 24 :14-33
I can’t believe that I got through Joshua that fast, it feels like after all that time in the Torah, this was just really fast. Joshua recounts all the ways and different places that God has delivered Israel and now tells them to “fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth.” And here comes the super famous statement that Joshua makes but the popular saying is not the whole verse, but I think the whole thing together is more powerful and I think it needs to be taken in the context of the previous verse as well. Joshua says, “And therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and I truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the (river), and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord. And if it seems 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 (river), or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serv...