Oct 9, 2016
Joshua 3:1-6,11-13,17;
4:1-7, 21-24; 5:10-15
And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said
to him, "What does my lord say to his servant?" And the commander
of the Lord's army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals from your
feet, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did
so.
We all know the stories of just how
long Israel wandered in the desert. It took them forty years to get
to where they were going. For many of us, finally landing into
God's promised land can seem like wandering. We wander from job to
job, from romance to romance, from dream to dream, from victory to
failure - we are not much different. Our comforts might bare the
illusion of having landed but we are a wandering culture. For
Joshua and Israel though, on one night, it all ended. The wandering
was over, the manna eating ceased, and God was present with them,
in the land that he'd promised. Join us as we look to find God in
the wanderings and mark our trail as God shows his power to "do it
again."