OT: Joshua. Love is...

It being the 14th February, I guess I should talk about love. Sorry.

Now it's true that the Bible is choc full of love - although when you read the Old Testament, it's sometimes a little harder to see unless you view the bigger picture.

Much of Joshua concerns the Israelites killing people, but the bigger picture is that of a loving God providing for his people exactly what he promised them. If you get bogged down in the detail of the events, you can miss the significance of what happens in this book - God's work done God's way will be successful (in God's eyes...).

We also see that God gives us guidance - on Sunday we looked at the future, and this fits well with the situation the Israelites will have found themselves in once they started moving into the land - a plan has been provided, but it's sometimes hard to see how it's going to work out.
To know God's will for our lives, we could do little better than reading his word and talking to him.
God speaks to us through his word as we read it, but also in the future as we remember what his word says - how great is it when you remember some Bible verses relevant to a situation you find yourself in without having to pick up a Bible!?

Finally, as we near the end of Joshua we see God cares about all of his people - potentially millions at this point. They have all been provided places to live, a social justice system to ensure the poor and broken are supported and security in their land.

We can trust in God for these things today - think about these particular areas of God's loving character and ask him for the things you need in your life; or maybe thank him for the things he has already given you.



"Father, father help us - need some guidance from above, 'cause people got me questioning - where is the love?"