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Joshua Great Things
We all want to do great things for God.
To be useful, helpful instruments of God.
Joshua chapter three tells of one man who succeeded. He is the
SUPERMAN
of the Old Testament. A man of action, he is aggressive and powerful.
Let us look at this one individual,
Joshua,
and see how he became successful in his quest to do great things for God.
The Lord's Miracle
Any successful work of God needs
a touch of the miraculous.
The people of Israel had been camped at the banks of the Jordan river for three days.
Then Joshua said,
"Purify yourselves, because tomorrow the Lord will perform miracles among you."
1
For Joshua, this entailed
the river Jordan being stopped
and the people being able to cross on dry ground. When the people left the camp to cross the Jordan, the priests went ahead of them carrying the Covenant Box. As soon as the priests stepped into the river, the waters stopped flowing and piled up, far upstream at Adam, the city beside Zarethan.
The flow downstream to the Dead Sea was completely cut off, and the people were
able to cross over
near Jericho.
2
The Stream Miracle
The miracle was that the
stream stopped exactly when it did.
The river Jordan has stopped flowing on other occasions.
On
December 8, 1267 A.D.
an Arab historian records that it was dry for sixteen hours at Adam because the current undercut the bank and the following landslip dammed the flow. In 1927 the river was dry for twenty-one hours due to the same phenomena.
God still works miracles in people's lives.
Others may scoff and say it is coincidental or good luck, but Christians know the difference. They can recognize a miracle from God, but to act on it they need vision.
The Leader's Vision
The old rhyme says:
"Two men looked out of the prison bars; The one saw mud; the other stars."
These were new ways for Joshua and the people of Israel.
"You have never been here before."
3
Joshua could have drawn back from
fear of the unknown.
He didn't because he had a vision of what God could do. He had determination.
So had John F. Kennedy who said,
"Some men see things and say 'Why?' I see things and say `Why not!'"
The leader's vision encouraged the people to have faith in God and His Ways.
God still works miracles in people's lives.
Notes
1 Joshua 3:5 2 Joshua 3:15,16 3 Joshua 3:4
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