I've always like the ending of Joshua where he implores of the Israelites to "choose today whom you will serve... But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord." Today, however, I noticed something else though. Once he secured the Israelites commitment to likewise follow the Lord...
Joshua recorded these things in the Book of God’s Instructions. As a reminder of their agreement, he took a huge stone and rolled it beneath the terebinth tree beside the Tabernacle of the Lord. Joshua said to all the people, “This stone has heard everything the Lord said to us. It will be a witness to testify against you if you go back on your word to God.”Joshua is reminding the people that even if he dies and passes on, that a witness to their covenant still stands in the memorial rock. But can the rock really testify against them? Jesus tells the Pharisees in Luke 19:40 that even if his disciples keep quiet, the stones will cry out. Covenants made with the creator of the world are not easily reneged on without significant consequences as the Israelites would soon learn.
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