Wed.’s Devo - Our New Season

Read: Joshua 3:1-4:24; Luke 14:7-35; Psalm 80:1-19; Proverbs 12:27-28
Today’s reading seems to be exactly where we are now. We are crossing into a new land, a new assignment, a new adventure and we have never been this way before. God is standing in the middle of our impossibility to make the way possible. God gave the children of Israel two reasons why he did this great miracle. The first was so the people on the earth might know that the Lord is powerful and the second was so that his people would always fear him. That is the same reason he does if for us.
But… he told them like he would say to us “…tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you.” All we have to do is the next thing he is telling us to do. The next thing for them was to cross over and pick up a stone to carry to the other side. This would be their reminder of what God had done for them. A rock stands for a Word. All we have to do is find a scripture that pertains to our situation and remind ourselves of that verse over and over. One of my rocks is Isaiah 44:3-4. It says, “For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour my spirit upon your seed, and my blessing upon your off-spring and they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.” That is my rock for my family.
We can be assured that there were spies from the other nations watching all this take place just as their are people that aren’t in the kingdom of God watching us. They see what God does for us and how we react when we go through struggles and trials. They either accept us and what we carry, reject us totally, or file it away for another day. Everything we do affects the kingdom. Our job is to scatter seed and it is the Holy Spirit’s job to do the rest.
Luke explains the kingdom of God. To be exalted you must be humbled; to receive you must give; to live you must die. To be a follower of Jesus you must give up everything, but you will gain eternity.
Lord, help us to move into our next season fearlessly, looking to you who goes ahead of us.