March 7, 2025
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Reading along with us in Joshua and Timothy? Here’s today’s reading:
Joshua 4 (NIV)
1 When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, 2“Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, 3 and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from right where the priests are standing, and carry them over with you and put them down at the place where you stay tonight.”……Continue Reading
God asks the Israelites to take stones from the dry ground of the Jordan River to make a memorial of what happened there. So important to remember the times when God held back the waters or made the ground dry ahead of us. Just because it isn’t as dramatic as this, it doesn’t make it any less significant when God is constantly working in our lives. Maybe we don’t set up stones but we should take time to remember and share with others especially our own children so they can see how God has worked in our lives. Often the work God does in our lives goes almost unnoticed because it isn’t like the crossing of a river but I am humbled by the amount of times I looked back and saw God’s hand on so many situations in my life and didn’t realize it until afterthe fact, which is another good reason to remind people that just because you do feel it or see it He is still working!
Joshua 4
A powerful testament to the power of God and his favor for Israel!
”Then he spoke to the children of Israel, saying: “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’“
Joshua 4:21 NKJV
I was thinking of something I think I did following the book the men are using now, experiencing God, which was looking at the spiritual markers in one’s life. Seeing where God worked in my past. There were some seemingly simple, some profound, and even curious events that were steps leading me ultimately to follow Christ.
Gilgal as a memorial for following generations, the past matters, God wants us to all remember His mercy and protection.
This world will dissolve. But until then, man needs memorials such a this, to return our hearts to times past, loved ones, places, events: we are like that. God knows what triggers our conscience, and leaves visible traces of His works that we may believe.
Blessed is the man who has not seen, yet believes. -gy
Joshua 3 & 4
Joshua 4
It is always important to remember God and the things that He has accomplished for us in the past, so we can encourage ourselves and others to believe Him in the present and the future. It is even even better to have a physical representation of it to prompt our memory. And one of the more important people to remind of and declare the glory of God to is the next generation. God is instructing the Israelites to do it here, and we are wise to do the same. And it is neat how the ark of the Lord is so central to this powerful work that God did. It was the physical representation of His presence with them. And sure enough, as soon as the ark left the Jordan it returned right back to it’s regular state. What a grand demonstration of the great power of our God!
Joshua 4
JOSHUA 4