So imagine with me for a moment that Jesus had decided to be disobedient. Imagine that He decided to walk away. What would have happened to us? Because what we may not know is that our obedience may be tied to somebody’s deliverance.
Joshua lived a life full of faith and courage, but it was time for him to go be with the Lord. And like every good leader, he leaves parting words for the children of Israel. Something that they could hold on to, like guidelines for them. And one thing he tells them is that they should be courageous to obey the word of God and not step away from it. This is a repetition of what God had told him earlier in Joshua 1.
O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac… Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and attack me and the mother with the children. For You said, ‘I will surely treat you well
And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead. And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. Genesis 31:22-24
Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers—they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing—and they cried, “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!” JUDGES 7:20 There are four major things that are evident in any partnership. The first is that it…
