We make choices every day that affect Eternity.
To follow Jesus or not to follow Jesus.
Choose to serve the Lord or not to serve the Lord.
To forgive or not to forgive.
To love our neighbor or not to love our neighbor.
To care for widows and orphans or not care for the widows and the orphans.
Listen to the cry of the poor or turn your ear from the cry of the poor.
Love your enemies or despise your enemies.
Lend a hand or ignore the hand that reaches out for help.
Love money or love the Lord.
Love the world or hate the world.
Honoring your father and your mother or dishonoring them.
Following Jesus’ commandments or doing your own thing.
Loving the Lord with all your heart, mind, soul and strength or loving yourself or an idol.
Listening for the leading of the Holy Spirit or not.
Reading His word to be reminded of all the things He has done that prove His power and might.
So many choices that will affect Eternity.
Don’t be fooled, while Jesus forgives, we must fear the Lord and not take His mercy for granted.
Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve Him in sincerity and in truth:
and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt;
and serve ye the Lord.
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.
And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods;
For the Lord our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight,
and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
And the Lord drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land:
therefore will we also serve the Lord; for He is our God.
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for He is an holy God;
He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
If ye forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you hurt,
and consume you, after that He hath done you good.
And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the Lord.
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the Lord, to serve Him. And they said, We are witnesses.
Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you,
and incline your heart unto the Lord God of Israel.
And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and His voice will we obey.
Joshua 24:14-24
Choose Jesus: The Lord our God will we serve and His voice will we obey.