Today's encouragement comes from Joshua 24:15c, where we read these words:
" . . . But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."No matter what other people choose to do, God's true/regenerate Christian churchmen must and do choose to serve Christ wholeheartedly. The Fall of man into sin has left us all with the deplorable disease of "man-pleasing"; and of mindlessly following whatever new "gods" or theological fads that happen to come along.
The sincere believer in Christ is much more thoughtful and intelligent than that. If the world likes or is enamored with something, we ought to look as-kance at it, with a level of suspicion. This is not because we are paranoid—rather, it is because we have come to learn that idolatry is subtle, and easily slipped into.
[Puritan quote of the day: "To the extent that we give way to our will in sin-ning, to that extent we set ourselves at a distance from comfort.” —Richard Sibbes, in, "The Bruised Reed"]
