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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Joshua 24:16-33
Israel responds to Joshua’s exhortation and the personal example he sets with a prompt profession of faith. The people undertake to serve the LORD. But good intentions are not enough. V. 23 shows us that the foreign gods are still there, so that Joshua is obliged to speak to them in these terms: "Ye cannot serve the LORD" (v. 19). "No servant can serve two masters" affirms the Lord Jesus (Luke 16:13).
Israel’s good intentions will last as long as there are godly guides: Joshua, Eleazar, Phineas (cf. 2 Chronicles 24:2). Dear friends, one last question: Are we joined to the Lord by a living, personal faith? Or have we just been satisfied up to now to follow after and imitate those who have instructed us? If this is so, what will we do when they are taken from us?
Joshua had finished his course. A faithful leader, he has walked the life of faith in the desert. He has fought the good fight of faith. In him we can recognize some features of the great Guide, the Overcomer of the world, the Author and Finisher of our faith. Let us beseech God that He teach us in our daily walk as in our fight of faith to fix our eyes on Jesus (Hebrews 12:2).
