Joshua 24:15 (NIV)
15 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.”
We have a choice what religion and what god we wish to
follow. Here Joshua states that he will follow the Lord, the God of his
ancestors and the only God he has known and loved.
When the prayer made in faith is not answered, and the
healing for which many have sought does not come, we are not to look for someone
to accuse of failure in faith. Rather we are to remember that besides faith
there is hope. Hope has to do with God's promises that are still future and
hidden, just as faith has to do with God's promises that are here and now. To
the person who has believed for today but has not seen the answer come today,
there comes the call to hope. Hope says, "Tomorrow also is God's. Enough
has happened already to assure you that the rest is on the way." [—Thomas
Smail, quoted in Ken Blue's Authority to Heal]
Who will you serve? The God of Hope or whatever you
fancy? God lets us see faith in action. God also allows us to see hope that
comes in the future with the richness and fullness of God.
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