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November 4
Tuesday


CHOOSING
OUR LEADER

READ:
Joshua 24:14-25
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Choose for yourselves
this day whom you will
serve.... But as for
me and my house, we
will serve the LORD.
__Joshua 24:15
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Today, millions of people in the United States will cast their votes for a slate of political leaders, including President. After months of campaign speeches, television ads, and debates, each voter has the opportunity to say to one candidate, "I choose you." Not everyone's favorite will win, but every voter has a choice.

Unlike a political election in which the majority rules, each of us is given the opportunity to select our personal leader each day. In the spiritual election deep within our hearts, our choice will stand no matter what others may decide.

After many years in the Promised Land of Canaan, the aged Joshua called the people of Israel together and issued this challenge: "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" (Josh, 24:15). In a great collective response, the people said, "We will serve the LORD!" (v.21).

Everyone serves some kind of god. Whom will we choose to have rule in our hearts today? _David McCasland
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`````````````````Thy will I choose; I give to Thee`````````````````
``````````````````All of the life Thou gavest me;``````````````````
``````````````````Thy will I choose, no llfe I ask``````````````````
````````````````Except to do Thy given task. __Anon.`````````````
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Each day we choose the one we will follow in life.

*************Today's Bible Reading __ Joshua 24:14-25************

14 "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!

15 And if it seems evil to you
to serve the LORD, choose
for yourselves this day
whom you will serve....
But as for me and my
house, we will serve the
LORD."

16 So the people answered
and said: "Far be it from us
that we should forsake the
LORD to serve other gods;

17 for the LORD our God is
He who brought us and our
fathers up out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of
bondage, who did those
great signs in our sight, and
preserved us in all the way
that we went.... 18 We
also will serve the LORD, for
He is our god."

19 But Joshua said to the
people, "You cannot serve
the LORD, for He is a holy
God. He is a jealous God;
He will not forgive your
transgressions nor your sins.

20 If you forsake the LORD
and serve foreign gods, then
He will turn and do you
harm and consume you,
after He has done you
good."

21 And the people said to
Joshua, "No, but we will
serve the LORD!"

22 So Joshua said to the
people, "You are witnesses
against yourselves that you
have chosen th LORD for
yourselves, to serve Him."

And they said, "We are
witnesses!"

23 "Now therefore," he
said, "put away the foreign
gods which are among you,
and incline your heart to the
LORD God of Israel."

24 And the people said to
Joshua, "The LORD our God
we will serve, and His voice
we will obey!"

25 So Joshua made a
covenant with the people
that day, and made for them
a statute and an ordinance in
Shechem.