Tuesday... I wonder what God is going to do through us and for us today. I wonder!

Back in the book of Joshua in the OT, it tells of Joshua who was the leader of the People of Israel who were headed to what God said was the Promised Land. They were coming from Egypt and they had wandered through a wilderness for 40 years because of their not following God's plan for them. But now they were about to cross the Jordan River which was an impossible task because the water was flowing over its banks but Joshua said to them in Joshua 2:5 (NLT), "Purify yourselves for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you."

Now could that be what God is wanting to say to us in this difficult task of living through a pandemic? Could this be a great opportunity to show that being a Christ follower is the only way to go through a pandemic?

David in Psalm 36:1 (NLT) says, "Sin whispers to the wicked, deep within their hearts. They have no fear of God at all."

Joshua 4:23-24 (MSG) says, "Yes, God, your God, dried up the Jordan waters for you until you had crossed, just as God, your God did at the Red Sea, which had dried up before us until we had crossed. This was so that everybody would recognize how strong God's rescuing hand is and so that you would hold God in solemn reverence always."

Then Joshua 5:1 (MSG) says, "When all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how God had stopped the Jordan River before the People of Israel had crossed over, their hearts sank; their courage drained out of them thinking about the People of Israel."

Could this be a time like that where God is using us during this pandemic to show who he is and he wants us to purify ourselves for tomorrow the Lord will do great wonders among us?"

Psalm 36:10-12 (NLT) says, "Pour out your unfailing love on those who love you; give justice to those with honest hearts. Don't let the proud trample me or push me around. Look! Those who do evil have fallen! They are thrown down, never to rise again."

You do make a difference, God! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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