Make Your Stand For Jesus
It is Monday morning, 30th November 2020, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.
Joshua Chapter 24 and verse 15:
“And 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.”
Joshua gathered all the people together in one place. He was old. He was getting ready to go home to be with The Lord, and he reminded the Children of Israel where they had come from, and he said to them, “You cannot serve two masters, for our God is a jealous God. We are either for Him or we are against Him.”
You know, Jesus said the same thing, in Matthew Chapter 12 and verse 30. He said:
“He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad”.
Joshua then made it very clear Who he personally, and his family, were going to serve.
There is something so very powerful and decisive about making a public confession of your faith.
You know, people don’t have to like you but they must respect you.
A person who cannot make up their mind, what they stand for, eventually becomes despised (“looked down upon” the Oxford Dictionary defines the word despised).
I remember, my oldest son, on his wedding - he made me so very proud.
With all his friends present and our large family gathered together at a hotel at that beautiful reception, he made the groom’s speech.
His beautiful bride was seated right next to him and he was in his mid-twenties at the time.
And he stood up, and he put his shoulders back and he lifted up his head, and he said this very scripture that I have just quoted from Joshua Chapter 24 and verse 15.
He said, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
And you know, the Lord has been so faithful to them and their lovely family ever since.
What about you today?
Make your stand for Jesus.
Have a wonderful week.