JOSHUA 1
" No man is indispensable. God’s work goes on uninterrupted. The instruments are changed, but the Master-hand is the same, and lays one tool aside and takes another out of the tool-chest as He will." --The New Leader's Commission, Joshua 1:1-11
"Christian people that have their Christian principles to dig out of the Bible when the necessity comes, will likely find that the necessity is past before they have completed the excavation. The actual battle-field is no place to learn drill." --The Charge to the Soldier of the Lord, Joshua 1:7, 8
"The man that succeeds in obeying and translating God’s will into conduct is the victor, whatever be the outward fruits of his life." --The Charge to the Soldier of the Lord, Joshua 1:7, 8
JOSHUA 3
"We are all impatient of uncertainty, either in opinion or in conduct; but if you are not quite sure what God wants you to do, you may be quite sure that He does not at present want you to do anything." --The Untrodden Path and the Guiding Ark, Joshua 3:4
"God often opens His hand by one finger at a time, and leaves us face to face with some plain but difficult duty, without letting us see the helps to its performance, till we need to use them. If we go right on the road which He has traced out, it will never lead us into a blind alley." --The Waters Saw Thee; They Were Afraid, Joshua 3:5-17
" The best security for to-morrow’s wonders is to-day’s sanctifying." --The Waters Saw Thee; They were Afraid, Joshua 3:5-17
JOSHUA 5
"We have the right to be sure that God is on our side, when we have made sure that we are on God’s." --The Captain of the Lord's Host, Joshua 5:14
JOSHUA 6
"Keep on as you have begun, and for the six weary days turn out, however hot the sun, . . . however wearisome and flat it may seem to be perpetually tramping round the same walls of the same old city; keep on, for in due season the trumpet will sound and the walls will fall." --The Siege of Jericho, Joshua 6:10,11
"It has always been faith that has bound men to God. That faith may co-exist with very different degrees of illumination. Not the creed, but the trust, is the all-important matter.
Beware lest people with less light and more love get in before you, ‘who shall come from the east and the west.’" --Rahab, Joshua 6:25
"So we should not expect old heads on young shoulders, nor wonder if people, lifted from the dunghills of the world, have some stench and rags of their old vices hanging about them still. That thought should moderate our expectations of the characters of converts from heathenism, or from the degraded classes at home." --Rahab, Joshua 6:25
JOSHUA 7
"It is true to-day, and will always be true, that the victories of the Church are won by its holiness far more than by any gifts or powers of mind, culture, wealth, eloquence, or the like." --Achan's Sin, Israel's Defeat, Joshua 7:1-12
JOSHUA 10
"Life inexorably slides away from us." --The Sun Stayed, Joshua 10:12
"We are constantly startled to feel how long ago such and such a thing took place. The mother sees her little girl at her knee, and in a few days, as it seems, finds her a woman. How immense is our life in the prospect, how awfully it collapses in the retrospect!" --The Sun Stayed, Joshua 10:12
"Strenuous work is the true way to lengthen each day. Time is infinitely elastic. The noblest work is to do ‘the works of Him that sent me.’ There should be no care for the future. It is in His hand. There will be room in it for doing all His will . . . If so, the passing day will have results that never pass." --The Sun Stayed, Joshua 10:12
"So life, short as it is, will be long enough for all that we have to do and learn and be. Christ’s servant is immortal till his work is done." --The Sun Stayed, Joshua 10:12
JOSHUA 13
"We should be continually driven by a sense of our incompleteness, and drawn by the fair vision of unattained possibilities. In all regions, to be satisfied with the attained is to cease to grow." --Unwon, But Claimed, Joshua 13:1-6
"We each have our limitations, the defects of our qualities, the barriers of our environment, the brevity of our day of toil, and we have to be content to carry the fiery cross a little way and then to give it up to other hands. There is only One who could say,’ It is done.’ Let us see that we do our own fragment." --Unwon But Claimed, Joshua 13:1-6
JOSHUA 14
" The world, which only measures time by its own revolutions, has to lament over what seem to the sufferers long years of pains and tears, but in the calendar of faith ‘weeping endures for a night, joy cometh in the morning.’" --Caleb--A Green Old Age, Joshua 14:6
JOSHUA 22
"All God’s gifts in providence and in the Gospel are given that we may have somewhat wherewith to bless our less happy brethren. ‘The service of man’ is not the substitute for, but the expression of, Christianity." --The End of the War, Joshua 22:1-9
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