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August 21, 2026 - Joshua 13 & Proverbs 12:5-8 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Lamp and Light ByWording Plan, where you are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength with God's word lighting the way.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is Friday, August 21st, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Joshua 13.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to possess.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the land that yet remains.
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  SPEAKER_01: All the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Gesherites, from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdad, Eshkelon, Gath, and Ekron, and those of the Avim, in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Afek, to the boundary of the Amorites, and the land of the Gebelites, and all Lebanon toward the sunrise, from Baalgad, below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath, all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Mizraphath Maim, even all the Sidonians, I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Only allot the land of Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now therefore, divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.
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  SPEAKER_01: With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh, the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave them, from Aror, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, in all the tabulan of Medeba, as far as Debon, and all the cities of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites, and Gilead, and the region of the Gesherites, and Maakathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Selikah, and all the kingdom of Og and Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edre.
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  SPEAKER_01: He alone was left of the remnant of the Raphaim.
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  SPEAKER_01: These Moses had struck and driven out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yet the people of Israel did not drive out the Gesherites or the Maakathites, but Geshur and Maakath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.
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  SPEAKER_01: To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance.
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  SPEAKER_01: The offerings by fire to the Lord God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben, according to their clans.
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  SPEAKER_01: So their territory was from Aror, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tabulin by Medabah, with Heshbon and all its cities that are in the tablin, Dibon, and Bamath Baal, and Beth Baal Maon, and Jahaz, and Keramath, and Mephoth, and Kiram Athaim, and Sibma, and Zarath Shahar on the hill of the valley, and Beth Por in the slopes of Pizgah, and Beth Jeshamath, that is, all the cities of the tabland, and all the kingdoms of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rakim, and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princess of Sion who lived in the land.
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  SPEAKER_01: Balam also, the son of Baor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with a sword by the people of Israel, among the rest of their slain.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary.
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  SPEAKER_01: This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans, with their cities and villages.
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  SPEAKER_01: Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people of Gad, according to their clans.
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  SPEAKER_01: Their territory was Jazar, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Arur, which is east of Rabbah, and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah, and Betanim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Dabir, and in the valley Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Suckath, and Zaphan, the rest of the kingdom of Sihan, king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the sea of Chinareth, eastward beyond the Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the inheritance to the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Moses gave an inheritance to the half tribe of Manasseh.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was allotted to the half tribe of the people of Manasseh, according to their clans.
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  SPEAKER_01: Their region extended from Mahanaim through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og, king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan sixty cities, and half Gilead and Ashtaroth, the Edre, the cities of the kingdom of Og and Bashan.
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  SPEAKER_01: These were allotted to the people of Makir, the son of Manasseh, for the half of the people of Makir according to their clans.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are the inheritances that Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.
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  SPEAKER_01: But to the tribe of Levi, Moses gave no inheritance.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, just as he said to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs twelve, verses five through eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: The thoughts of the righteous are just, the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
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  SPEAKER_00: The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.
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  SPEAKER_00: A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of twisted mind is despised.
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  SPEAKER_01: Joshua thirteen is such a great reminder that when God makes a promise, he cares down to the details.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we see here in Joshua thirteen all of these lands and regions and inheritances allotted and distributed amongst the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is all bound up in his promise for the promised land.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's bound up in the promise that he made to their forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so while Joshua 13 is filled with lots of names that you just heard me stumble through, uh, this is a great reminder that God is a God of details, that he cares about the the smallest detail in every promise that he makes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is good news, uh, both on a grand scale, but also kind of on the more smaller scale in our own lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you even think about what Jesus talks about in the gospels, that God knows the very number of hairs on your head.
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  SPEAKER_01: God cares for the birds, God is taking care of the world, he sustains it by the word of his power, he cares about the details.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Joshua 13, though it feels like just a list of allotments and territories and tribes, it's just a reminder that when God makes a promise, he's gonna see it through all the way down to the last detail.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now, if you think about that from the perspective of the return of Christ, the establishment of God's kingdom, uh, our promised future inheritance of being with Christ for eternity, I would hope that you care about the details and that what God has said in his word will happen down to the most minute of details.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we see here in Joshua 13 that he makes a promise, that he had made a promise before, and he's keeping it in all of the nitty-gritty.
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  SPEAKER_01: As you think about the future and promises that we look forward to and that we greet from afar, I would hope that you have that expectation that God will fulfill his promises down to the very last detail.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's good news, that's encouraging, that should fill us with a sense of hope and awe and expectation for the day where Christ returns, where he establishes his kingdom, where he rights every wrong, where he uh finally balances the scales of justice, as it were, and he rules forever and ever.
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  SPEAKER_01: And every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I hope that you expect with great anticipation, based off of Joshua 13, that God cares about the details and he will fulfill all of his promises down to the minutiae.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what better thing that we could set our mind on, Pastor Josiah?
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  SPEAKER_00: We think about uh the first verse of our proverb today.
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  SPEAKER_00: The thoughts of the righteous are just what are we choosing to fix and set our minds on?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, when I first read this, I'm like, well, not all not all the thoughts of all the righteous are are always uh pleasing to the Lord because our minds drift, we wander, uh, we daydream, we we aren't always um thinking about the things that are are approving to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes things just pop into our mind out out of nowhere, it seems, and we need to be careful to to handle those with care and to set and fix our minds on the things that would please the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, we think about Colossians chapter one.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we fix our eyes on Christ, He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creations.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we think about the the promises that God gave to Moses, and now Joshua is walking through actively as uh king after king fall before him uh because the Lord is with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: We think the Lord is with us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We remember that he cares uh for his people down to the details, like you were saying, Pastor Josiah, he really does truly care uh for his children more than you will ever care for for your children if you have any and you're listening to this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um PJ, you just had a son who recently turned one.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's amazing to think that both you and I have we have we have children, and God cares, uh cares for our children more than more than we do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And though we do care a great deal for our children, we love them, we cherish them, and they are a blessing from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh these are these are children created in God's image and children that we are to steward in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God cares about how we handle the details of their lives, how we parent them, how we raise them.
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  SPEAKER_00: We so we seek to honor the Lord by the way that we think about them, the way that we think about how we um want them to grow up, how we pray for them, how we instruct them and give them a counsel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as we look to our poverty, that's just the first thing that jumps off the page in my mind is what am I choosing to think about?
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  SPEAKER_00: What am I choosing to um to work towards today?
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  SPEAKER_00: What am I choosing to invest in uh today?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it the here and now, the temporary, that that which will pass away, that will be like a mist, or am I fixing my mind, my things on the eternal?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think the parallel passage to Proverbs 12, 5 in the New Testament is Colossians 3.
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  SPEAKER_01: Set your minds on things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course, later on in that chapter, Paul famously talks about putting off the deeds of the flesh, putting on the things of Christ, because as a result of setting your mind on something or your thoughts being fixed on what is righteous or excellent or pure or praiseworthy is going to be a kind of purification, where if you think of the words of the Apostle John in first John chapter three, whoever thus hopes in him will purify himself as he is pure.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's what we see here in Proverbs 12:5.
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  SPEAKER_01: The thoughts of the righteous are just.
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  SPEAKER_01: Another thing that I thought was interesting in verse eight is it says, A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of twisted mind is despised.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, one of the things that we often like to think about, and it's certainly true, but uh in our world, we think of the words of Jesus as an example where he says, Um, in this world you will have tribulation, but take heart, I've overcome the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes we like to kind of think of if you're not being persecuted as a Christian, you're not really standing for the faith, or things like this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, that's not always the case.
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  SPEAKER_01: That that certainly could be.
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  SPEAKER_01: You could be, I don't know, a comp be you could be compromising, you could be cowardice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but here in the Proverbs, we see something different.
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  SPEAKER_01: A man is commended according to his good sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a sense in which living in God's world, God's way, uh, living in God's world, his created order skillfully will lead to, even from the vantage point of the world, a sense of people taking notice of that and you being commended as a result of that because of your skill in navigating the complexities of life, your skill and how you speak to one another, how how you uh treat others, how you go about your business dealings, how you are managing your time well.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, all the things that the proverbs say.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's a sense in which generally the wisdom of God's word is that when you follow it, there are even those who are perhaps unbelievers that would commend you as a result of your skillful living in God's created order.
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  SPEAKER_01: So certainly it's not always the case that being a Christian equals immediate and obvious and overt persecution, though, certainly that's true in some parts of the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think Proverbs 12, uh, eight is specifically could be true, maybe in a more general sense here in America, where people could look at you and kind of have an admiration for your life, your discipline, your kindness, your character, your righteousness, even if they didn't use that word, uh, because uh it is good, it's good sense, it makes sense, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, good sense makes sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so people I think are going to notice that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course, that's juxtaposed to the wicked, but one of twisted mind is despised.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you could see how this also would be true in a general sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: You think about those people that perhaps you know uh even either from afar or very maybe in a personal way, that have a twisted mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: They think about things in a distorted way, they act out of that distortion, they do things that are wrong and sinful and hurtful.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's a sense in which your heart, your mind naturally, uh even though this word is strong, uh, despises them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now there's a whole other conversation that we could have there, but just generally speaking, here that's what that's what the proverbs say.
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  SPEAKER_01: One of twisted mind is despised.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because we recognize that they lack good sense, because good sense makes sense, and it doesn't make sense for people who are twisted in mind and are governed by that twistedness.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just an interesting thought there from the Proverbs that there are times as Christians where even the world will look at us and say, hey, that that's good sense, and maybe even commend us as a result of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And another thing that I'm thinking here, Pastor Josiah, is uh the necessity of faithful men and women in our lives, those who would bring us a good counsel and those who would help us to make sense of our thoughts as we seek to take them captive, as we seek to make plans for our lives and strategize for the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what encouragement uh what God would give to us through just joyful and wise, mature believers in our lives that would be sounding boards to our thoughts?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh hey, have you ever been in a place where you're not sure what to do next?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, the first thing I do is um ask a question.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I go to to you, Pastor Josiah, or I go to um go to someone that has been walking with the Lord longer than I have and ask them, hey, have you ever been in this situation before?
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  SPEAKER_00: What passages were comforting to you?
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  SPEAKER_00: What passages did you did you cling to to make sense of what's going on in your in your season that you're in?
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  SPEAKER_00: And and that's something that I think is uh is slept on uh in the in a Christian worldview is the the pursuit of wise counselors, and many of them seeking those who would find uh find the scriptures and and hold that high above all other things when we seek to find um the right path, the the right next choice to make.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh as we think about the the decisions living in a world where God's common grace is is abounding, there there are many ways to please the Lord, and and sometimes we have options um in our decision-making process, and sometimes we don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um, Pastor Josai, maybe you can speak to maybe a wise counselor that that you've had in in your life, or maybe a circumstance where uh you asked for help and were pointed to the scriptures.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, I think of even in my college days, going to my my pastor at the time, uh, and I remember he was the first person that ever asked me this question in this way.
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  SPEAKER_01: It took me off guard.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said, How is your soul?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh that was the I thought it was strange, you know, back then because I'd never heard anyone ask that question in that way.
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  SPEAKER_01: But he was sincerely just asking how I was doing, and then I would respond and I would find myself sharing just what things that were going on in my life and receiving great counsel from him, rooted in God's word.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he was a great encouragement to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's been counselors all along the way.
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  SPEAKER_01: I still have counselors today that are good at pointing me back to the word, and that's so needed and uh necessary.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you so much for joining us on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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