Joshua's last assembly at Shechem ends with the Old Testament's most quoted household decision: choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.

Nearby, a coffin is finally lowered: Joseph's bones, carried out of Egypt four centuries after his request, come home to Shechem. Promises keep. Households choose. Today asks you to do both.

Joshua's challenge is deliberately uncomfortable: serving the LORD is not the default; it is a decision, renewed against real alternatives, made out loud, witnessed by stones and children. And the buried bones preach beside him: Joseph believed God's promise so firmly that he scheduled his own funeral for the promised land, four hundred years out.

The widow shows what a decided household looks like at the offering box: everything entrusted, because the LORD can be served with two coins but not with leftovers. So hold your own Shechem today. Say the sentence over your actual address, as for me and my house, and let your calendar and your coins start agreeing with it.