Today, I am reading and commenting on Joshua 23-24.

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The last couple of days have been difficult reading for me to comment on.  I am not much for reading the boundaries which God laid out for the ancient Israelites.  Today however, we come to Joshua’s final meeting with the people of Israel whom he had served all of his life.  He gathered the people of Israel together and addressed them.  He reminded them that their successes in conquering the land were all the work of God.  He told them to look at all which God had done for them and be strong in doing all that God had commanded them.  Since God has done these great things for them, they should cling to God and love Him with all of their hearts.  We should do likewise.  I look back on my life and know that I owe all the great things which I have, my beautiful wife, my lovely home, my Church family, my many friends, to God and His power.  None of those things came into my life because I am such a wonderful person.  They came into my life because God chose to bless me.  So, I must strive to love and serve God with my whole being.

Today I noticed that Joshua restates in chapter 24 what he had said in chapter 23.  In chapter 23 Joshua primarily talks about what God had one personally for the people to whom he was speaking, and how they, personally, should respond to what God had done.  In chapter 24, Joshua speaks about what God had done for them as a people, going back to Abraham, and calls on them to dedicate themselves as a people.  And yet, even though chapter 24 calls for a communal commitment, it was also a commitment that each person needed to make as an individual.  Joshua called on the people to choose who they would serve.  If they chose to serve God, they needed to serve Him in sincerity and faithfulness.  If we choose to serve God, we must do likewise.  The Israelites needed to put aside the other gods whom they had served.  So must we.  We must each examine our lives and put aside whatever other gods we have served.  I must examine my life and do that.  Finally, when the Israelites said that they would serve God, Joshua told them that they are not able to do so, that they would forsake Him.  I know this is true and is why I am so thankful for Jesus Christ, through whom God has sent His Spirit to live in me and bring me to Him despite my human failings.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.