[March 21]
Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan. Joshua 1:2
THE intimation is that Joshua, like Moses, was a
meek man, humble-minded, and that instead of attempting
to grasp authority he needed rather that the
Lord should encourage him to undertake the responsibility
of the position of leader.
Happy would it be for
all of the Lord's people if they were similarly meek and
backward.
All should criticize their own hearts and
motives along these lines, and such as find in themselves
an ambitious spirit should remember its dangers
to themselves and to the Lord's people with whom they
have to do, because the Lord resists the proud, the
self-conscious, the boastful and ambitious, and shows
his favor to the humble. Z'07-281 R4061:1 (Hymn 229)