How many choices do you make every day? Have you ever thought about it? What thought process do you go through to make a choice? Is it different depending on the question? Have you made the most important decision? Have you decided to serve God?
We make more choices each day than we think we do. We decide what to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We choose what clothes we will wear. We choose the route we will take to work, even if it is the same one each day. We choose when to go to bed and when to wake up.
Our choices are numerous. There are many choices in our jobs. How we will tackle a specific task. When to take a problem to a manager. We make choices for entertainment. We can watch a sitcom or a movie. We can decide on an action or drama or comedy. Some of these choices are dependent upon our mood.
Above all those choices is the choice to serve God. It is not one that can be made lightly. We must carefully consider it. For God is a jealous God. He does not want to share our heart with any other. When we decide to serve God, it must be a commitment from our heart, one that runs deep and will never be rescinded. God will have it no other way.
We must give up our other gods. They may other people or things. We cannot continue to put them above God. That may sound harsh, but it need not be. We can still love our family and care for our possessions. We simply need to love God more than any of them and know they all belong to God, too.
I pray we all think carefully through our choice to serve God. I pray after careful consideration we commit to him. I pray each one of us will love God more than any other person or possession. Choose to serve God. Love God will all your heart. Put God above anything else.
Joshua 24:15 “Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
Marty Pressey 