SPIRITUAL
DIARY FOR 06-13-03
My
Worship Time Focus: Joshua’s faith
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Hebrews 11:30
Message
of the verse: “30 By faith the walls
of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.” (NASB)
“It was by faith that the people of Israel marched around Jericho seven
days, and the walls came crashing down.”
(NLT)
2Corthinians 10:4 has
some insight on how those walls of Jericho fell down: “For the weapons of our warfare are not
carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,” It seems to me that was
what this battle was all about, as are most battles. This is the account from the Scriptures of
the walls falling down, “Joshua 6:20 So the people shouted, and priests blew
the trumpets; and it came about, when the people heard the sound of the
trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down
flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and
they took the city.” I want to quote
from John Gill of what he says concerning the faith of these people of
Israel: “And this was by the faith of Joshua, and the Israelites,
who believed the walls would fall, at the sound of the rams' horns, as God said
they should: after they were compassed about seven days; which was a trial of
their faith and patience: the Jews say {o} it was on the Sabbath day that they
fell: this was a preternatural act, and cannot be ascribed to any second cause;
nothing is impossible with God; no defenses, ever so strong, are anything
against him; unlikely means are sometimes made use of by him; faith stops at nothing, when it
has the word of God to rest upon; and what God does, be does in his own
time, and in his own way. This may be an emblem of the fall of the walls of the
hearts of unregenerate men; of their unbelief, hardness, enmity, and vain
confidence; and of the conversion and subjection of them unto Christ, through
the preaching of the Gospel; which, in the eyes of men, is as mean and
despicable, and as unlikely to bring about such an event, as the sounding of
the rams' horns might be to the inhabitants of Jericho.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: The one thing that God has impressed upon my
heart through this eleventh chapter of Hebrews is the action of true Bible faith,
which is as Dr. Wiersbe has described, “True Bible faith is confident obedience
to God’s Word in spite of circumstances and consequences.” This has been very enlightening to me at just
the time when I needed it.
The Word of God was again a challenge to my heart to keep
up the true faith, and also it was so very refreshing to my soul as I read over
it today.
My
Steps of Faith Today: To
believe that God will do as He says He will do from His Word concerning the
storm that He has lead us into over our investments. God has promised that He will never leave me
nor forsake me.
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