Submitting Our Priorities to God: (1) God, (2) Family, & (3) Church

The time comes in every Christian's life when we must make a pivotal decision: whom will we serve? Joshua's challenge to the Israelites resonates through the ages and into our very hearts today.

He declared in Joshua 24:15, "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

The choice he presented was stark and clear-cut: serve the LORD or serve false gods. Today, the challenge remains the same, though the false gods may take different forms.

• Are we going to serve the Lord, or are we going to serve ourselves and our priorities?
• Are we going to serve evil and the devil, or are we going to serve the Lord?
• Are we going to serve tradition or are we going to serve the Lord our God properly?