We Promise to Serve God

Our Love for God

God Commands Our Love, Respect, and Obedience:
Choose to Love and Serve God

Joshua 24:16-21 The Message 

16 The people answered, “We’d never forsake God! Never! We’d never leave God to worship other gods.
17-18 “God is our God! He brought up our ancestors from Egypt and from slave conditions. He did all those great signs while we watched. He has kept his eye on us all along the roads we’ve traveled and among the nations we’ve passed through. Just for us, he drove out all the nations, Amorites and all, who lived in the land.
“Count us in: We too are going to worship God. He’s our God.”
19-20 Then Joshua told the people: “You can’t do it; you’re not able to worship God. He is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He won’t put up with your fooling around and sinning. When you leave God and take up the worship of foreign gods, he’ll turn right around and come down on you hard. He’ll put an end to you—and after all the good he has done for you!”
21 But the people told Joshua: “No! No! We worship God!”

For Reflection

If I had a nickel...
Promises are not cheap. One can always modify a threat, but when promises are made people expect them to be fulfilled.  We humans often fail at promises.  God, on the other hand, never fails to follow through on a promise.

So, think about it.  What would we do without the grace of God? God rarely offers a threat without the hope of a promise.

Pray

Pray prayers of thanksgiving for the promise of the living God. Pray so that you will be able to accept your failures, ask for forgiveness and repent.

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