A handful of choices determine the trajectory of our lives. Will you marry? If so, to whom? Will you go to college? What career will you pursue? Should you take that job across the country or stay put?

In his final address, Joshua laid out a monumental choice for the people of Israel:

Fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness…if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

We inherit the same challenge. The most fateful decision you and I make is to whom or what we commit. Where do we bow the knee? Choose the Lord, or choose ourselves.

Like the people responded to Joshua, let’s decide to serve the Lord. Go all in. Get solid. Build our houses upon the rock. Here lies the narrow gate that opens to a flourishing future. One decision marks a life and creates a legacy.

Choose this day whom you will serve.

Joshua 24:14-28

Photo by Casey Horner