Be a Joshua!

Who else besides me has had the desire to do something and said to yourself, I can do this if the Lord will go with me, and then you start it only to fall flat on your face in failure? Anyone? No? Just me then? Okay! Awesome!! What about when God urges you to do something and it just doesn’t seem like something you want to do but you know he will be with you? When God told Moses it was time to go into the promised land and take over the land he sent in twelve spies to see what the land was like. On their return ten of them said nope! Their are giants in there! Champions of war! Not going!! But two of them, one named Joshua, said hey man, this place is awesome and God is going with us so let’s do this!! It was Gods idea, his will, his purpose for them to go but they wouldn’t do it. So God said they could hang out in the desert for 40 years then Joshua could lead the way because he trusted in God to go with them. Joshua lived to do what Gods will was not his own. Yes he had to wait awhile before he could go but because he remained faithful God used him in a mighty way!! You see, if we live to serve God and not man or even our own desires, God then will use us to accomplish his purpose. And he will never ask us to do something that he doesn’t give us what we need to do it and he will be with us!! Sound good? So we need to ask ourselves, do we want to live in fear and miss out on the blessings or do we want to be like Joshua and go with God and be courageous warriors for him? Oh God, help us to seek to do your will and purpose and not our own!!
Be courageous for Christ today!!