AMAZING GUIDE

AMAZING GUIDE

READ:

Joshua 1:1-9

Not a word failed of any good

thing which the LORD had

spoken. –Joshua 21:45

When actors and actresses make a movie, it’s the director who sees the “big picture” and the overall direction.  Actress Marion Cortillard admits she didn’t understand everything the director was doing in one of her recent films.  She said, “I found it very interesting to allow myself to be lost, because I knew that I had this amazing guide….You abandon yourself for a story and a director that will make it all work.”

I think Joshua could have said something similar about the director of his life.  In today’s Scripture passage, the newly commissioned leader of Israel is standing at the threshold of the Promised Land.  More than 2 million Israelites are looking to him to lead them.  How would he do it?  God didn’t give him a detailed script, but He gave him the assurance that He would go with him.

God, said, “I will be with you.  I will not leave you” (Joshua 1:5).  He commanded Joshua to study and practice everything written in His Word (vv.7-8), and He promised to be with Joshua wherever he went.  Joshua responded with complete devotion and surrender to his amazing Guide, and “not a word failed of any good thing which the LORD had spoken” (21:45).

We too can abandon ourselves to our Director and rest in His faithfulness. –Poh Fang Chia

He leadeth me! O blessed thought!

O words with heavenly comfort fraught!

What’er I do, where’er I be,

Still ‘tis God’s hand that leadeth me. –Gilmore

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Faith never knows where it is being led; it knows

And loves the One who is leading. –Oswald Chambers

INSIGHT

Moses dishonored God (Numbers 20:1-13) and was not allowed to enter the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 3:23-29).  Yet God permitted him to see it from afar (34:1-4).  Moses was succeeded by Joshua, a man who was “full of the spirit of wisdom” (v.9).  In Joshua 1:1-9, God assured Joshua of His presence, power, providence, provision , and protection-just as God had assured Moses and been with him.

Have a blessed night.

God Our Creator’s Love Always.

Unity & Peace