10/18/2009 8:05 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Interlude
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Joshua 10:29-12:24
Message of the verses: This may be the most verses that I will ever
go over in my SD, but I am trying to follow the outline that is in Warren
Wiersbe’s Be book as I do go through the Bible in this kind of a format. His book for Joshua is called “Be Strong” and
that is a very good title for the commentary on the book of Joshua, for not
only did Joshua need to be strong, but also the entire army of Israel needed
to be strong in order to claim the inheritance that was from the Lord.
As I read
through these two plus chapters and also the commentary from “Be Strong” I saw
that Israel
defeats enough of the land in order to begin to occupy the land, the Promised
Land. I saw that it was the Lord who was
leading Joshua and his army in order to defeat these kings, actually
thirty-three in all that are recorded in these chapters. The other thing that stands out from these
chapters is that Joshua obeyed the Lord in all that the Lord had told him to
do.
Some who
read this and find out that Joshua was told by the Lord to kill all of the
people whom they were fighting against is hard to understand, that God is a God
of love and would not want this to happen. God is also a God of justice, and
judgment is a part of justice. God had
told Abraham in “Ge 15:16 ‘Then in the
fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not
yet complete.’” This shows that God is a
God of mercy for he gave these people four hundred years to repent and they did
not and now judgment has come upon them and their judgment brought glory to the
Lord.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: The book of Joshua is a picture of claiming
my inheritance in Jesus Christ which is spoken of in the first three chapters
of the book of Ephesians. I believe that
it also pictures the need to continually be in the battle as Joshua will tell
the nation that although much of the land had been conquered there were still
pockets of enemies that need to be destroyed, and this pictures my need to
continue in the battle each day and to put on the spiritual armor as spoken of
in Ephesians six. My salvation was a gift
of God, but there are still battles to be fought as my walk with the Lord goes
on while on this earth and this is to be done by faith: “Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus
the Lord, so walk in Him.”
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Give myself to the Lord for worship and service.
- Put on the whole armor of God.
- Continue to learn contentment.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
- Think on things from above where Christ is seated. 10/18/2009 8:39 AM
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