FROM THE DAWGHOUSE…
WHAT A BOOK JOSHUA IS!
The book of Joshua …
What a journey.
Have you read it?
While not the easiest book to digest, when you do persevere, the text can be riveting. To summarize, as best I can, in the book of Joshua God is …
- Directing his people to look to Him
- Calling to strangers
- Fulfilling his promises
- Embedding memories of his acts of deliverance
- Purifying and providing for those He has called
- Subduing their enemies
- Disciplining His people’s transgressions
- Upholding His covenant
- Establishing justice
- Provoking godly responses
- Meeting his people at worship
- Rewarding those who diligently seek him
- Reminding his people of His fidelity
- Exhorting them to a corresponding faithfulness, and
- Preparing them to display his holiness.
Whew.
The book also contains abiding truths concerning the holiness of God’s love, the reality of judgment, the inevitability of serving something or someone, the choice of what or whom that master will be as a matter of life-and-death, and the inevitable tragedy of opposing the true and living God.
No doubt, the book of Joshua deepens the gravity of God’s word through Ezekiel, “I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD; so turn, and live” – Ezek. 18:32
Joe Bouch, FORGE Winter Springs
