this morning i started reading joshua 5 & 6 (1-4 are sweet too), and found something i hadn't before. the israelites, who had been on the run for a very long time, were promised to receive a land they could call their own. duh, that's not the something. when you get to chapters 5 & 6, they're again reminded of this, but they would have to wait 7 more days before receiving it. which in reality is nothing considering the amount of time they had already been waiting for it.
i wonder how many of them were thinking, "yeah, right." or, maybe they forgot about the reason for their unending wondering all together. but this really challenged me, the israelites had to show great patience in taking God at his promise. it was such a long time before God delivered on his promise. onoe he did though, the israelites received tremendous blessing. what's amazing though, is the evidence of God's promise is all over the pages leading up to this point. for me, God's timing and reminder couldn't have been better.
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