Moses had died. Joshua and the nation of Israel found themselves on the brink of a new era, at the edge of a place they had never been before. Isn't that where we are today? On the threshold of a new year . . . a year we have never seen before.
I can remember when A.D. 2009 sounded like the setting for a science fiction movie. In 2009, so I thought, we would get around with jet packs while robots did all our work. But here we are, in pretty much the same circumstances we were in when we were dreaming about flying saucers and one-hour work weeks.
How shall we enter this new year? None of us has been this way before. We don't know what kind of giants, what kind of battles, await us in the coming year.
But surely the Lord's instructions to Joshua are applicable to us today.
Heeding God's Word in Joshua 1, let's . . .
ENTER 2009 CLAIMING THE PROMISES OF GOD
1:1 After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, 2 “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel. 3 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. 4 From the wilderness and...
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2009, bible reading, joshua 1, new year, one-year bible, presence of god, promises of god
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