Good Morning Friends,
God announced that it was time for the people
of Israel to cross the Jordan River into the land of Canaan. This was the land
God had promised to give Abraham’s descendants many years ago. Canaan is the
land the people had refused to enter 40 years earlier out of fear of the
opposition they would face. The people were ready now, only one thing stood in
their way --- the Jordan was at flood stage.
“Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during
harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and
their feet touched the water’s edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing. It
piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity
of Zarethan, while the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt
Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho. The
priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry
ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel passed by until the whole
nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.” (Joshua 3:15-17)
God did a miracle for the people of Israel to
allow them to enter the land. It was a miracle similar to the one God performed
to bring them out of Egypt when He divided the waters of the Red Sea.
Israel had a new leader. Moses was dead and
Joshua was now leading the people. But God was still with them and it would be
God who would deliver them from their difficulties.
When they saw God’s miracle, I wonder how
many of the people of Israel thought about those 40 years of wandering in the
wilderness. The miracle confirmed that God could have given them the land 40
years earlier, if they had just trusted Him. The enemies they would have faced would
have been strong, but they would have been no match for God’s power!
Their fathers and mothers had missed such
great blessings because they would not trust God. They lived out the rest of
their lives as wandering nomads in a desolate land instead of taking possession
of their own land of milk and honey.
I wonder how many blessings of God we miss
because we do not trust Him?
His, by Grace,
Steve
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