AVAILABILITY: Character Quality # 18

Joshua 24:14-15

"Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.  But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."

Jonah didn’t make himself available – ended up in the belly of a fish

Made himself available and an entire city was spared destruction.

Moses didn’t make himself available and argued with a bush in the dessert

Made himself available and led a nation from slavery to the promised land.

No one in the Israelite army (including King Saul) made themselves available.

Little David made himself available and brought down the giant!

Can you think of other leaders who made themselves available and what the resilts were from such availability.  Not just those who went from unavailability to availability but those like Joseph who kept making himself available to whatever ways God would use him as a leader.  Or Joshua who made himself available and the walls came a tumblin’ down.

Joshua 24:15-18

But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."    Then the people answered, "Far be it from us to forsake the Lord to serve other gods!  It was the Lord our God himself who brought us and our fathers up out of Egypt, from that land of slavery, and performed those great signs before our eyes. He protected us on our entire journey and among all the nations through which we traveled.  And the Lord drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites, who lived in the land. We too will serve the Lord, because he is our God."

From the Heart,

Pastor Jeff