…choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond 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 24:15b
The One Step Daily Devotional is intended to provide just one step each day for your journey with God. Every journey requires water breaks. Here is a water break for you.
There is a way of doing things that our parents and grandparents handed down to us. There is a way of doing things that our surrounding society offers us as well. Some times these ways of doing things collide. Older generations do not understand why younger generations do things and visa verse.
Even within the ways of our parents and the surrounding society, there are differing views on how to do things. There are different cultures and past technologies informing how our parents and grandparents think. There are opposing political parties that define what is good, right, and necessary in different ways. There are pictures of the flourishing life around us, telling us what to chase in life and how. These views oppose each other.
Then there is God.
God asks us to make a choice. God asks us to lay down the ways of our parents and grandparents and the ways of the surrounding cultures. Unless our parents and grandparents and the surrounding culture serve God, we must cast aside those ways that are handed to us. Why?
Because the way that we do things and the things that we call good, right, and necessary inform what we serve. The way we define the flourishing life will determine what we worship.
Who will you serve? How will you live? What will define that?
Today, take a step.
Maybe today the one step God wants you to take is to lie down the ways things have always been done for the ways that God says that they should be done. Perhaps today God wants you to set aside the pressure to serve an agenda to serve God.
Whatever the step, ask God to direct it. Take a moment to take that step. Invite Him to speak. He will.
Life is a long road. Walk it with Jesus. Take a water break… we all get thirsty.
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