If it is displeasing to you to serve the LORD, choose today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose country you are dwelling. As for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.” (Joshua 24:15 NABRE)
These well-known words of Joshua were a challenge to the Israelites who had come into the Promised Land and begun to adopt the ways of non-believers, and they are a challenge to us even today as we live in prosperous times and continue to adopt the ways of those who would turn us away from our God and toward the gods of our times.
Lord God, your words are indeeds Spirit and light. May my ears always hear them. As the Israelites responded to Joshua so long ago, far be it from me to forsake the LORD to serve other gods. Lord, thank you for your many graces. Help me to live in this world as a sign of your great glory. Help all who seek you to find you. Help our leaders as you helped Joshua, so they might continue to remind us to serve you above all else.
Today, I will chose a life of service to the one, true God.
Saint Rose of Lima, the first canonized saint of the New World, who had a love of God so ardent that it withstood ridicule from without, violent temptation and lengthy periods of sickness, pray for us.
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