Saturday, February 23, 2008
joshua
i've been meditating and studying joshua for the past few weeks. i shared some of these thoughts with the YP2 (our youth choir at church). but this morning it came back to me even stronger. the 24th chapter of joshua begins by summing up the plight of the children of isreal. it talks about how they dwelt in the wilderness for a "long season." (v.7)because of their disobedience. Verses 8-11 sum up the victories that joshua and the children of isreal had in battling to gain the promised land of canaan. if you read the whole book of joshua you see how they rarely (if ever)had a break from their battles. they truly went from strength to strength in fighting. but they were victorious each time. each time god told them exactly how to win a particular battle. i was thinking about how we have pressures of life. things we have before god and as soon as one thing gets solved we may go on to the next. isn't this the same as what joshua had to do to reach and possess his promised land? anyhoo, that was encouraging to me. all of this isnt for nought. its buidling me up in the things of god, teaching me natural lessons i'll need for later on, and helping me to possess the promised land.
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And as Sister Barbara Parsons once said in a lesson on faithfulness...
Staying faithful helps you to stay faithful.
That is, going through things and learning how to handle them in order to have a victory prepares you for the next battle so that you are capable of handling it in an even better way. You might actually wipe out the enemy quicker the next time because you learned from the last time what works.
Not only that you can pass on to the "new recruits" your strategies so that they don't have to learn everything the hard way.... if they will listen.
That's interesting....I've been reading in the same place!
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