Who do you or will you serve?

Following is God’s direction to Joshua after Moses had died and that was recorded in Joshua 1:5-9. Joshua became a great warrior for God.

No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.

“Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”


- Joshua eventually led the Israelites across the Jordan and into Canaan and took the city of Jericho. The conquest of Canaan had little to do with Joshua’s military savvy or the Israelite’s bravery. It had everything to do with a promise God made to an old man (Abraham) with no kids. God delivers on His promises.
- Joshua listened to what God told him above and trusted God. Why don’t we listen to God? Oh, it’s because we’re too smart you say. At least smarter than Joshua.
- It is more important now than ever to have faith in God and to live for Him.
- Why don’t we believe God? Well it’s a nice story but it’s just a story you say. And besides how can I believe in a God if he doesn’t really ever make himself visible or do the things he has done in the Bible or lets bad things happen to good people.
- One of the most important things we, my wife and I, have decided is stated in Joshua 24:15: ‘But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.’