Directions For Living The Dream

1. Living the Dream Means Living Godly, Contented, and Impactfully. Jos 24:15 “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

Joshua is a 110-year-old saint of God, living a contented life. Living the Dream for Joshua was not a state of life, it's a state of mind. Joshua was grateful for all that God had done. He understood that you're living the dream when you believe you're living the dream and you have no regrets. Joshua makes his choice without popular opinion, without taking a poll, and without consideration of how others may feel. “But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” You know you are living the dream when you are at peace following your God and leading others to do the same. With his prosperity, and temporal blessings, Joshua was living godly and contented. More than that, his life has impacted his family and his nation. Paul was living his dream when he said, Php 4:12 “I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.” Then in 1Ti 6:6-8 “But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.” For Joshua living the dream meant Living Godly, Living Contented, and Living Impactfully. Is that your definition of the good life? Living the Dream? Joshua declared his firm resolution (let them take what course they pleased), together with his whole family (as far as he could oblige them), to worship the Lord alone. Men will worship something or someone. Every person must choose. Though it is your choice alone, some one is following.

2. Living the Dream Does Not Mean Living Life Your Way. Joshua 24:15-18 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. 16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; 17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed: 18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.

Living the dream requires more than a house, money, material things, or momentary pleasures, it is living in obedience to God. Living the dream means staying God-centered by letting Him be Lord in your heart, home, and habits. Many are choosing money, others are choosing material things, and some are choosing moments of pleasure on the weekends. That kind of life is too small and too selfish. Each of us must choose for ourselves. Remember the words of Joshua 24:15, "choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve. . . But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord."