We Bear This Responsibility

 

We Bear This Responsibility

Joshua chapter 4 specifically verse 24

     And we of the Word, who know these stories owe it to the world to dispel them.  As fragrance goes from a blown flower bloom, we are to declare that faith is attainable and real.

     This is no ordinary God dreamed up by the imaginations of men used to control and manipulate masses.  This God does not breathe war into His subjects.  Nor does He call us to light ourselves afire in the village square to protest an ill principle.  With those of ears and those who can read, He gives a rich inheritance by revealing His mind, heart, soul and will.  He has opened Himself to inspection.  He calls us as creatures to search Him and His calling.  His personage He has laid before our senses in His creation which screams loudly of His care.  So, we have.

     Joshua was to set up the memorial stones.  When the children would come back and ask, their grandparents could exclaim, “Yep! Yep! That’s where it happened.  Right there.”  Or “Right ‘cheer.” As I heard one grandpa.  But we are not only to tell our offspring, Joshua 4:24 says, “That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty; that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.”

     This Jordan crossing wasn’t to be a secret only Israel knew that on its times of squeamish wonderments about the power of their God, they could gaze upon the pretty rock formation and shout the battle cry again.  No, this little crop of rocks, with the ongoing testimony of scripture, was to ride the Roman Road and propel itself all over the earth.  God had big plans for these documented ‘stories’ that we irrelevantly by ignorance color with grays and blacks while He wanted them brought out with oranges and blues.  In other words, these occurrences invite all us to faith.  Faith in a big God who can do Big things!

     Certainly, the seed thrown on the pathway was quickly eaten up by birds.  Satan has his way of taking revealed truth and hiding it in his own belly.  That’s where we come in.  The truth without explanation does no good.  It will not grow if never planted.

     Moms, Dads, anyone of faith…teach these bitty ones His recollections as if they were truer than your birth certificate.  Get these stories in them.  Do unit studies, songs, plays or whatever to further expound that precious word He has given.  He relies upon our imaginations coupled with His Spirit to enact and recreate the HAPPENINGS again.  In so doing, you will send those missionaries into this world to fulfill His divine calling found in this verse.

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