aggressiveness and reinventiveness

joshua 23-24

joshua dies. he makes his final speech to the israelites and with them renews God's covenant with them.
keep obeying God, and he will continue to bless them and fulfill his promises.
turn from God and he will fulfill his promise to curse them and destroy them.

i ask God what he wants me to learn from this.

matt15:22
the canaanite woman asks Jesus for the deliverence of her daughter.

in the end jesus tells her
woman, you have great faith! your request is granted.



i didnt think the israelites needed faith to obey God. but they did. knowing god and obeying him and trusting him requires faith from anybody.
only in the passage i read, the israelites alr had evidence and experience.

i was reminded that it is more blessed to believe without seeing.


in a period of uncertainty in how i am going to balance my book out time, how i am going to maximise my free time--study or work? what course i am going to pursue in uni.

god says, have faith.

in a period, also, where i am trusting god for victory in my walk
and when my 'trust in god' didnt get the results i'd hoped for
god assures me to have faith, for faith without seeing is true faith, which has great rewards.

its a new thing, to leave your life absolutely in God's hands. a curiously free feeling, yet with the knowledge that there is control.



into your hands, i commit again.