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April 29 - Joshua 14 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Shawn. Here it is Wednesday.
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  It's April the 29th. Where is the 4th month of this
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  year going? My goodness, here we are.
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  Just feels like we started the year, but about you, there has
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  been a fair bit happening between the start of the year
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  and now. If we look back and think about
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  all the things that we've managed, yes, these things
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  continue to go. And day by day, the one thing
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  that we are able to do is punctuate our daily lives, to
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  instil our daily lives with God's Word so that His Word can
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  bounce around in our heads and reshape the lens that we use to
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  see the world, to see the world through God's eyes and the
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  promises that He offers us. How good is that?
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  And that is what this book of Joshua is all about, God's
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  promises coming true for his people.
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  And if you managed to survive yesterday's reading, wow, it was
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  a lot of places being given to a lot of different tribes.
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  Today is a much more conversational and brief one
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  than yesterday, so hopefully it's a bit easier to follow.
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  But as we listen to these, we are just so aware of God being
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  faithful and true to His people and engaging in their life in
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  that place to care for them in the way that they need that
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  care. How wonderful is our God that He
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  chooses to do that so intimately.
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  So let's do it again, shall we? Let us read this story, the next
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  instalment in Joshua Chapter 14. The remaining tribes of Israel
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  received land in Canaan as allotted by Eliezar the priest,
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  Joshua son of Nun, and the tribal leaders.
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  These 9 1/2 tribes received their grants of land by means of
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  sacred lots in accordance with the Lord's command through
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  Moses. Moses had already given a grant
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  of land to the 2 1/2 tribes on the east side of the Jordan
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  River, but he had given the Levites no such allotment.
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  The descendants of Joseph had become two separate tribes,
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  Manasseh and Ephraim, and the Levites were given no land at
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  all, only towns to live in with surrounding pasture lands for
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  their livestock and all their possessions.
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  So the land was distributed in strict accordance with the
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  Lord's commands to Moses. A delegation from the tribe of
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  Judah, led by Caleb, son of Gefuna the Kennethite, came to
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  Joshua at Gilgal. Caleb said to Joshua, Remember
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  what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, about you and me
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  when we were at Kadeshbarnia. I was 40 years old when Moses,
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  the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadeshbarnia to explore the
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  land of Canaan. I returned and gave an honest
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  report, but my brothers who went with me frightened the people
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  from entering the Promised Land. For my part, I wholeheartedly
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  followed the Lord my God. So that day Moses solemnly
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  promised me. The land of Canaan, on which you
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  were just walking, will be your grant of land and that of your
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  descendants forever, because you wholeheartedly followed the Lord
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  my God. Now, as you can see, the Lord
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  has kept me alive and well as He promised for all these 45 years
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  since Moses made this promise, even while Israel wandered in
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  the wilderness. Today I AM 85 years old.
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  I am as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey,
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  and I can still travel and fight as well as I could then.
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  So give me the Hill Country that the Lord promised me.
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  You will remember that as scouts we found the descendants of Anak
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  living there in great walled towns.
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  But if the Lord is with me, I will drive them out of the land,
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  just as the Lord said. Sir Joshua blessed Caleb son of
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  Gefane and gave Hebron to him as his portion of land.
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  Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb son of
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  Japhane the Kenazite, because he wholeheartedly followed the
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  Lord, the God of Israel. Previously, Hebron had been
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  called Kirith ABBA. It had been named after ABBA, a
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  great hero of the descendants of Annak, and the land had rest
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  from war. Lord, we see that not only do
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  you provide land to all of those tribes as you promised, but you
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  still remember the individual who received that promise 45
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  years early, which I've got to say, it feels like a very long
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  time to us, but to you, it's as fresh as a Daisy in your memory.
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  And you are faithful to that promise.
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  Lord, thank you that everything that you promise us, everything
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  that you say, you will give us. Everything that you say, you
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  will protect us from everything that you say, You have already
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  won for us. We can rest certain in the
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  knowledge that you are faithful and true and you remember all of
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  those things. Thank you for the generosity of
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  your love and provision for us as individual as we hear, as it
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  was to Caleb back in the day. You are a good God and we love
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  you and we praise you and we submit ourselves to your rule
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  and your authority. We pray this in the saving name
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  of Jesus, Amen.