One of my favorite people to read about in the scriptures (besides Jesus of course) is Joshua. I love his courage and leadership in times of uncertainty. His faith is so inspiring. Yesterday, I read a portion of scripture in the last chapter of Joshua that stood out to me like a 3D TV made by LG. Joshua gathers the people together, the old generation and the new, to steward the story of God and pass on the leadership to the next generation. You may have heard the speech before, it ends with, "choose this day whom you will serve. For me and my house we will serve the Lord". What stood out to me was the paragraphs before when he shared the story of God and how He delivered them and provided for them and never once let them go. Joshua was stewarding the story of God for the next generation. He was really asking them who they would serve. In a sense he was being sarcastic and laying it all on the table to Glorify God above. That challenges me on how I am stewarding the story that God is writing in my life. What am I capturing for my kids to see God? How am I slowing down to write or collect artifacts that reveal God's story and his faithfulness in my life? How am I stewarding God's story for my family, my peers, and total strangers? Shelly and I are in the process of buying a house. Last night we talked about the importance of placing around artifacts that we have collected from trips and/or different times in our lives so we can share the story of God with our guests. We also are thinking about tailoring our personal stories into children's stories for our kids before they go to bed at night to instill in them God's faithfulness to them and their family at an early age. There are so many ways to steward the story. Get creative and do it today. People are waiting with anticipation to hear your story.

Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges and officials of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.
 ² Joshua said to all the people, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Long ago your forefathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the River ^[a] and worshiped other gods. ³ But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the River and led him throughout Canaan and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac, ⁴ and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I assigned the hill country of Seir to Esau, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
 ⁵ " 'Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and I brought you out. ⁶ When I brought your fathers out of Egypt, you came to the sea, and the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen as far as the Red Sea. ⁷ But they cried to the LORD for help, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians; he brought the sea over them and covered them. You saw with your own eyes what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the desert for a long time.
 ⁸ " 'I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought against you, but I gave them into your hands. I destroyed them from before you, and you took possession of their land. ⁹ When Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, prepared to fight against Israel, he sent for Balaam son of Beor to put a curse on you. ¹⁰ But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you out of his hand.
 ¹¹ " 'Then you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The citizens of Jericho fought against you, as did also the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites and Jebusites, but I gave them into your hands. ¹² I sent the hornet ahead of you, which drove them out before you—also the two Amorite kings. You did not do it with your own sword and bow. ¹³ So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities you did not build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.'
 ¹⁴ "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. ¹⁵ 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."