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Discipleship Focus: Invitation
- Invitation: God is always inviting us into relationship with Him. He desires that we know Him and we know His desires for us.
Yesterday
I spoke about challenge. Don’t be
fooled. There is a high amount of
challenge in this chapter. The verses
after following the most famous quote in Joshua are almost all challenge. Joshua knows how tough it will be for the
people to stay obedient to God. The
challenge is not being one of those people.
However,
there is a tremendous amount of invitation in this chapter as well. The whole set of opening verses are
invitation. Joshua reminds the people
that they have taken possession of a land for which God did most of the
fighting. They are taking possession of
trees they did not plant, vineyards they did not tend, cities they did not
build, stone they did not quarry, wells they did not dig, etc. This is a huge amount of invitation given by
Joshua. He reminds the people that they
are welcome to come into God’s provision for their life.
Furthermore,
Joshua literally invites them to choose.
He reminds them that they do not have to obey. They are not under an obligation to follow
God. They can choose disobedience if
they want. Admittedly, in choosing
disobedience they are likewise choosing death.
But they have that choice. They
are invited to choose.
So
what is it for you? Do you feel the
invitation by God to come into a life you did not earn? What will you choose?
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