Joshua 1:5
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you.
Having to subdue seven nations and conquer a strange land in bloody warfare, all while trying to manage the life of a nation of ex-slaves who are only in the rudimentary stages of civilization, can make a fella jittery. Joshua, like Moses, did not feel up to the task. But Joshua, like Moses, found he wasn’t being asked to be up to the task. Instead, he found that God was up to the task and that he only had to do the next practical thing as God assigned it. We are in Joshua’s shoes. For the task of the Church is to conquer the world and we can’t do it either. Still less can we face the fact that the blood that is to be shed is ours, if it is anybody’s. But we still have this advantage: God will be with us and will not fail us or forsake us. Those are good odds.
