The Choice

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

June 13, 2025

The Choice

. . . choose today whom you will serve.

Joshua 24:15 

A week ago, our church concluded a several month study of the book of Joshua. Joshua’s closing challenge to Israel came at the conclusion of Israel’s conquest of the Promised Land and the division of the land for the twelve tribes. A simple way to understand the book of Joshua is that it is one miracle after another. God continually shows himself strong and faithful to his covenant with Israel.

Even so, Joshua challenged the people, “But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live?” (24:15) I think his challenge is insightful to the human condition. How easy it is for us to slip away from God and form our own golden calf, something visible or tangible or more palpable to our sensibilities. There is so much we can see and touch that tempts us. The hymn, Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing, puts it bluntly:

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,

prone to leave the God I love.

My Takeaway: Joshua answered his own challenge: “But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord” (24:15). The hymn, Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing, echoes Joshua’s words,

“here’s my heart; O take and seal it; seal it for thy courts above.” 

Yes Lord, here is my heart seeking to stay in your grace for today.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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