Day 65

The God of the Past Is Present

Read: Joshua 1-4

The book begins with God assuring Joshua that he will be with him just as truly as he had been with Moses. But Joshua must be sure to use the spiritual resources provided for him; he is to meditate on the Bible day and night. It is important for us to realize that the God who helped the great men of the Bible will help us today! But we must not neglect the means God has provided for us. Joshua had the five books of Moses. We are faced with new challenges in our generation. We can cope with them if the completed Scriptures are our daily source of inspiration.

To assure Joshua and the people that he is the living God, God does for them something very similar to what he had done for the previous generation. Moses and the people had crossed the Red Sea on dry ground. Now Joshua and the people will cross the Jordan on dry ground.

The hand of God is not shortened. He can do for us what he has done for people in the past. He may not act in such obviously miraculous ways as he did in the days of the Bible when he had not yet so fully revealed himself through his Son, but he is the living God who loves us and will do even greater things for us as we put our lives in his hands. And what he does for us we must tell our children (4:22).

PRAYER
Father, increase our faith, knowing that the great God of the Bible is the living God today. Through Christ. Amen.