May 6, 2025
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Reading along with us in Joshua and 2 Timothy? Here’s today’s reading:
Joshua 21 (NIV)
Towns for the Levites
1 Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the other tribal families of Israel 2 at Shiloh in Canaan and said to them, “The Lord commanded through Moses that you give us towns to live in, with pasturelands for our livestock.”……Continue Reading
“Not one of all the Lord’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.”
God is faithful. God keeps His promises. We see from the Israelites how true that is and also how often we get in the way of that process because it isn’t happening in the way or the timing we want. But we continue to repeat history. We doubt or fear slips in and we disobey, God must step in and correct, we repent and get back on track, and finally we see the blessing God had always intended had we just trusted from the start.
Joshua 21
Joshua 21
“Not one of all the Lord’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.”
Joshua 21:45 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/jos.21.45.NIV
How important it was for the Israelites to remember that the Levites had no inheritance because the Lord was to be their portion. Yet they still needed to take care of themselves and so the Jews were to take from their possessions and give it to the priests and Levites. It was an act of faith on both sides. It is interesting that many, if not all, of the cities of refuge were also Levitical cities. Hopefully that was more about the wisdom the Levites and priests would offer to the situations that would be confronted in the cities of refuge as opposed to we were sacrificing those cities anyways, But the Israelites were faithful to God’s direction and all the tribes participated. And as they looked back on all that had happened to position themselves where they were, the focus was not on the land that wasn’t taken, it was on the land that was. And in ALL. GOD had been faithful. He never falters in fulfilling HIs promises to them and to us. May we reflect on His faithfulness to us and be faithful to Him in return.