2 June 2009

Joshua 5

1) God is in control, He is the Lord
2) God is giving you a new blessings

In front of the enemies, God asked the Israelites to circumcised. Irrational in the eyes of man, but consecration in the eyes of God. Man looked at the readiness for battle, but God look at the readiness of the heart.

It does not matter whether their are enemies ahead of you, or there are difficult situation ahead of you. Is my heart ready for God, to obey and hear Him and act out what His will that may seem irrational to men? v8 When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed. 9 And the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.”

Lord I pray and ask that you that away any reproach that is in me. I want to live in your will and allow you to do your mighty works in me. I am empty, and you have done so, so that I from now, I act in accordance to your will. If I might prosper, it is you. For I will rememeber this start of 1st June that I leave Egypt. I still have provisions, but I know that you will sustain me and will see me through. I wait for the manna to stop.

12 And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.