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What Is the Most
Important Thing You Do Today? Go
to work? Go to school?
Will you decide to fix dinner or supper or what you will eat?
Will you take a bath or not? To
our young people, will you get your school work or watch some television show
instead? Perhaps Wednesday evening you will make a decision regarding Bible
Class and whether to go or stay home? Some
of the things just listed will be decided with out much forethought and others
you will be consciously deciding. I
submit to you that the most important thing you will do is to decide who you
will serve this day. One thing about this decision is that you may not have even
realized you made it, but you did. That decision will be the underlying basis
for all of your other decisions. The
words of Joshua rings loud and clear for us today, “Now therefore, fear the
Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your
fathers served on the other side of the River and In Egypt.
Serve The Lord! And if it
seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for
yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your
fathers served that were on the other side of 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” (Joshua 24.14-15).
Each of us has either already decided it or will in the near future. When
will you make it? You will make it when you decide to do what God wants instead
of what you want. When we decide to serve God we are denying ourselves and
becoming more like Jesus. This is
expressed in Galatians 2.20, “I
have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in
me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of
God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” When
we decide to serve ourselves we become more like satan and the world around us. In
this case we become slaves of sin. “Do you not know that to whom
you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you
obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?” (Romans
6.16) Let me tell you that
the devil and the world win by default. When you choose not to serve God you are
automatically serving satan. You are not serving God until you decide to do so. We
get to decide when we will serve God, but God and not you or I decide how we
will serve Him. Jesus says we are to take up His cross and follow Him. "If
anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross,
and follow Me” (Matthew |