We will serve the LORD

While doing research for my last entry here, I came across a song by the same guy, John Waller, who wrote a song from the movie Fireproof. It's called "As For Me & My House"
The song is based upon the scripture Joshua 24:14-16

Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

 ¹⁵And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

 ¹⁶And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

"as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."........Yes.

We must choose, both for our family's sake, and our own personal sakes, whom we will serve. Will we allow earthly idols to envelope our lives? Will we worship materialistic things? Will we put things, or people before God?
It's a choice. And Joshua (like we should) chose to serve the Lord, and ONLY serve the Lord. He chose to worship God, not the ever-present idols of his time.


In Exodus, we read the 10 Commandments: The FIRST commandment, is:

"Thou shalt have no other gods before me" (ch. 20 v. 3)

I believe that this is the first commandment, because we as humans, are so often tempted to put things before the Almighty. We seek to give Him glory, but only after those things, yet God desires to be FIRST in our lives and in our hearts.

Do we really serve Him? I can say with absolute (not boastful) certainty that "me and my house" serve only one God, the Father.
That's what I desire for my future....a house that serves, reveres, loves, and worships Him, and only Him. I want to have a marriage that gives glory to God in every way. I want children who call me blessed (see Prov. 30: 28).

Let it be said of me, that I was a Godly daughter, sister, niece, wife, mother, and that I served the Lord.

God gets all the glory. He is worthy of infinitely more praise, honor, and worship than I could ever pour out of my merely human body.

God has plans for my life, and while He has revealed some of them to me, that by no means, means that I should sit around doing nothing, just waiting for the future. No, I should serve the Lord, by preparing in every way I can, for the future that God has ordained for me.

I want to further His Kingdom, not be a hindrance to it.

It may be painful to wait, it may not be easy, but I'm taking every step in obedience, and faithfully, patiently, I will wait for the Lord. (Ps. 37:38)

I will serve Him, only Him.