But if you don’t want to serve the Lord, you must choose for yourselves today whom you will serve. You may serve the gods that your ancestors worshiped when they lived on the other side of the Euphrates River, or you may serve the gods of the Amorites who lived in this land. As for me and my family, we will serve the Lord. [Joshua 24:15 (NCV)]

I love travel but I hate packing; I stress over each item I put in my suitcase. Wanting to be prepared for every eventuality, I pack and repack several times. My husband, however, packs his suitcase in a matter of minutes but may spend ten minutes or more pondering which barbecue sauce to purchase. My mother-in-law dithers over finding the perfect greeting card and I know women who try on a dozen or more pairs of shoes before making their purchase. In our own ways, we each spend an inordinate amount of time making decisions of little or no consequence. Do we give that same amount of thought to the one decision we all must make, the most important decision in our lives, the one with eternal consequences? Who will we choose to serve today?

Then the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the Lord our God, and we will obey him.” [Joshua 24:21 (NCV)]