“But cleave unto the Lord your God,as you have done unto this day”.
Joshua 23:8
This is Joshua’s advice to the people of Israelites towards the end of His life. He asked them to remember the ways God prepared for them to have victory over the enemies. He asked them to cleave or cling to the Lord as a leech cling onto our bodies. We need salt to remove it from us. Similarly sin cling on to us always and we need the word of God as salt to remove it from us.We have to depend on the Lord and not the world or anything or anyone. We should understand the depth and breadth of God’s love and rejoice in it.We must invest our time in His service and always keep His promises on our lips.
“My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips”. Psalms 63:5
Joshua23: 6 —11 gives us the ways to cling to the Lord.V6 says give attention to His Word. Disregard the word is the first step towards spiritual rebellion.
V7 says avoid pagan influence. V8 says attach yourself to God. V 9–11. . says cultivate a deep affection for God in every way. “Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that you love the Lord your God”.Joshua 23:11.
God promises to be with us in all these challenges and reveal His awesome power. So when we surrender to Him what little strength and power we have, will be magnified.
The Lord is involved personally in all our struggles.The battle is truely the Lords. We need to take time in prayer and claiming His promises to get the victory. We need His guidance and wisdom in all our struggles. We have to cling on to the Lord and His Words.
His promises sustain,encourage ,deliver,heal and impart strength and power to give us victory in a variety of domains in our lives.The Lord is the source of our success, victory and personal triumphs.
“For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you,to do them,to love the Lord your God,;to walk in all His ways, and to cleave unto Him; Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you…….”.Deuteronomy 11:22–23.
His banner over us is love and victory . We have to collect every promises that God has spoken,to one place, that is in our heart ,for these are the things neither rust nor moth nor thief can destroy.We need to thank God ahead of time for the fulfilment of His promises Lord recognises our belief in His promises,that we consider it valuable,more precious than gold and money and delicious than finest honey and ponder it in our brains.When we pray mix with His promises,He will do more than what He promised. When each promise is fulfilled our intimacy and love for God increases.
Today the world ,like. Israel, cling to its icons of various domains — sports, films, glamour world , politics and so. on.People forgot or ignored God. People are too busy to spend time in the presence of God. Hence we are facing pestilence,death,fear,despair and disruption of our normal life.Only that way our attention to God can be drawn . We have to cling to the Lord and leave the world.
Prayer
Heavenly Father, thank you for the word which is doing wonderful things in our life. Help us to store the word more and more in our hearts.
We ask in the name of Jesus Christ,
Amen
Sol. Gigi Jacob