Choosing Jealous

"But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me, and my household, we will serve the Lord"- Joshua 24:15 (NIV),

I knew a week after I met my husband, that he was the man I was going to marry. I'm glad to live in a society where we can choose who we want to marry.That's freedom to be happy and to love. That's also a lot of responsibility, because the onus is on you. If you choose wrong, you'll be wedded to years of regret and suffer feelings of unfulfilled happiness and unrequited love. I'm happy to report I chose well. Joshua was laying it out to the Israelites. It was a warning to choose carefully whom they would serve. Choosing wrong, when it comes to which god we serve, has eternal consequences. There can be no fence-straddling, no wishy-washy allegiance, because God is a jealous God: "Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God" (Exodus 34:14). We all have to make a choice; we can't have more than one. I'm beyond certain that my husband doesn't want me in a relationship with any other man; just as God doesn't want us to be in relationship with anything or anyone that would supplant Him in our lives. We have the freedom to choose, the responsibility falls on our shoulders: But as for me, and my household, we, too, will serve the Lord. I choose Jealous and I have chosen well.