Recently I asked my older sister if she remembered when our family moved into the house where we lived for many years. She replied, “You were about 9 months old, and I remember that Mum and Dad stayed up all night packing boxes and listening to the radio. It was 6 June 1944, and they were listening to live coverage of the Normandy Invasion.”

This month marks another anniversary of what has become known as D-Day—a military term for the day on which a planned operation begins. Over the years D-Day has also come to mean a moment of decision or commitment in our own lives.

At one point in ancient Israel, their leader Joshua, now an old man, challenged the people to another kind of D-Day. After years struggling to possess the land God had promised them, Joshua urged them to faithfully serve the One who had been so faithful to them (Josh. 24). “Choose for yourselves this day who you will serve,” he said. “But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (v.15).

The day we decide to follow Jesus is the greatest turning point in our lives. And each day after, we can joyfully renew our commitment to serve Him.

Author

David C. McCasland

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Our Daily Bread