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Some steps require no thought or consideration &#8211; they are obvious and naturally taken with ease. Other times every fiber within wrestles with reason and a tug of war between the heart and the mind rages unseen. There are many that do not concern themselves with caution and live according to the fulfillment of pleasure and the gratification of desire but then there are those who carefully calculate and thoroughly consider that destiny is being weighed in the balances. After reminding them of all He had delivered them out of and carried them through God spoke to His people through Joshua and said, &#8220;Choose you this day whom you will serve.&#8221; A choice. It was a choice that was required. Not some heroic effort in executing a dangerous task or some extravagant expression of gratitude, but a choice! Oh how our choices count. They matter! Consequences they contain, power they possess and providence they persuade. Good or bad we live with them. 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