Joshua prepared to cross the river Jordan, and the Lord instructed him to gather 12 men from the 12 tribes of Israel to cross the river before the ark of the Lord. The waters would be rescinded and the 12 stones would mark a memorial for all of Israel.
Our challenge today is we forget too many things. What memorials do we have...I can’t even remember what I had for lunch most of the time. With computers, Blackberrys, Crackberrys, PDA’s, Treo’s, laptops, cel phones…we ALLOW OURSELVES to forget things. We don’t have to think because we have all of this ‘time saving’ technological gadgets to help us ‘remember’.
So what is my point…my point is God wanted Joshua and the people of Israel to REMEMBER the events that had taken place and to NOT FORGET what had happened. We as the children of God act like children more often than naught, and we should be ashamed of ourselves. We forget, we fail to remember, we become distracted on all of the WONDERFUL things that God has done for us. How many of you have been delivered by the grace of God in a financial struggle? How many of you have been delivered from a sickness or health problem by the grace of God? How many of you have been delivered from a challenging situation by the grace of God? Did you tell your kids about it? Did you tell them how they need to be faithful to the Creator of Heaven an Earth? Did you tell your friends, not your church friends, but your work friends, your soccer mom friends, your little league friends, your AYSO friends…did you tell them how Great our God is? And you sit there and ask yourself why our children do not know God? Remember this if nothing else today, Know God Know Peace, No God No Peace. That is one of my all time favorite bumper stickers……all time.
So what happens during a drought and the river Jordan begins to rescind and dry up; what do the people see? They see the memorial that God had instructed Joshua to build at the river bed...to remind them of God's awesome power. Those stones symbolized that God will never forsake us, even when the outlook is bleak, He will once again do mighty things for His people. We forget how great and awesome our God is too quickly.
Powerful word coach Bulla. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteRight on the mark Bulla. I remember back when I used to have easy over 20 people's phone numbers memorized. Addresses, you name it. After cell phones with its memory, I chose not to remember these things claiming that there are other more important things I could remember. What those things are? I don't know... Oh my gosh Bulla, this totally applies to what has happened to me this past week and even an incident as recent as this morning. I will send u an e-mail the 2 stories are long but good. Bless you Bulla. For being that outside force that makes us think and by your words convict us to come correct.
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