Thursday, October 8, 2015
Joshua, Chapter 4, Verse 14
That day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and so during his whole life they feared him as they had feared Moses.
That day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and so during his whole life they feared him as they had feared Moses.
Sometimes we are tempted
to follow any leader who is popular. We forget God’s warning about following
the proud and evil hearted, For lo, the
day is coming, blazing like an oven, when all the proud and all evildoers will
be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire, leaving them
neither root nor branch, says the LORD of hosts.(Mal 3: 19)
We may think that
following the leadership of our bishops a waste of time. You have said, “It is useless to serve God; what
do we gain by observing God’s requirements, and by going about as mourners-before
the LORD of hosts? But we call the arrogant blessed; for evildoers not only
prosper but even test God and escape.” (Mal 3:14-15)
God knows the heart of a
man and if his heart be true God raises that man up as He did Joshua and Moses.
God is not a God of the past and continues to this day in the action of rising
a man up and He does so in our Priests and Bishops. Just like an architect that
uses rocks and sticks to become temples or bridges God uses men to build his
Kingdom. Strive therefore to be God’s man or women. Emulate Joshua in proclaiming,
if it is displeasing to you to serve the
LORD,
choose today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors served beyond the
River or the gods of the Amorites in whose country you are dwelling. As for me
and my household, we will serve the LORD.(Joshua 24:15).
We should have a holy fear
of our Priest and Bishops. We should follow their guidance as we would a
beloved father or brother. Like Joshua that led the armies of God today the
Bishop of Phoenix asks us men to enter
into the breach.
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