Wayfarer and Warrior...the Wayfarer 12/18/14

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Wayfarer and Warrior
12/18/14


“Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying,

Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.

Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.

From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your coast.

There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”

(Joshua 1:1-5)


Joshua was a wayfarer!


On the death of Moses, Joshua was chosen to lead God’s people, and as their leader, was given the task of being both wayfarer and warrior.

He fulfilled both of those tasks fully and admirably as was documented throughout the book bearing his name in our Old Testament.

In  the process of fulfilling that requirement, he faced formidable odds, great strong armies, cities that were previously impenetrable.

His reliance and faith remained throughout those tasks, on God, and on the Omnipotence that he knew to exist.

Through his leadership, what was often loudly proclaimed as impossible was not only possible, but accomplished in accordance with the will of God for his people…. And the promised land was reached.

The people often failed to believe in him, were self defeatists and would have given up time and again, succumbing to the allures to be had by simply allowing that defeat.

Joshua remained steadfast, ever the warrior and wayfarer demanded that he be, as did the greatest wayfarer and warrior ever to be born…Christ Himself.

The same defeatism, same longing for better things as seen without the recognition of the goal pursued, existed in the people that Christ preached to and taught, and does to this day exist, within a world that forgets too often that the goal is not yet reached, and requires effort to actually attain.

Wayfarers and warriors, definitions of those seeking the kingdom and its peace, led no longer by Joshua, or any human whose frailties cannot deliver that goal, led now by the one who can and will deliver… the one that reminded us of the constant need to endure despite the obstacles that may seem insurmountable to us, but that are mere pebbles along the path as long as we follow the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE, that alone is fit leadership on the Journey demanded of each of us.

That journey will eventually come to its conclusion, as did Joshua’s.

2 Timothy 1:12 King James Version (KJV)

12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Even so come quickly, Lord Jesus!
Amen and Amen.
the Wayfarer

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