The Thursday Update

JANUARY 9, 2025

Lakeshore Friends—

Life is filled with choices. 

From the moment we wake up, we are faced with literally thousands of choices as the day progresses.  Some are trivial and related to what we’ll wear, eat, and the like.  Some are more important and involve choices on how much money we’ll spend, where we will invest our time, and what we will apply our energies to.  But there is one choice that we must make every day that is more important than any other choice.  What is it?

Choosing who we will serve.

Some people reflexively respond that they are Christians and that they have already made the choice to serve God.  In a certain sense, they have a point.  In reality however, the decision to serve the Lord must be made every day— actually, every moment of every day— not just at some point in time in the past when they become a Christian.  The reason is simple: at any given moment we can easily choose to serve someone other than the Lord and that someone is usually ourselves.  It may be that we choose to serve our selfish desires, or our creature comforts, or our personal conveniences over serving the Lord, but whatever it is, choosing anything over the Lord at any given moment has consequences. 

At first, the consequences may be hard to notice.  Over time though, these choices will become detrimental.  Given enough severity, these choices could be really destructive.

That’s why Joshua says in Joshua 24:14, “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve.”

Are you making the right choices these days?  Is the Lord your first choice more often than anything else?  Have you ever made the choice to make Jesus the Lord of your life by putting your faith in Him alone for eternal life?

The greatness of your life depends on it.

Warmly,
Vince