Daily Devotions
God's Faithfulness
Title: God's Faithfulness
Reading for March 11: Joshua 22-24
Not one word of all the good promises that the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.
Joshua 21:45
Joshua teaches us that God is faithful. There are many themes which run through the book, but this is one of the primary ones.
The book begins and ends with emphasis on God's faithfulness. In chapter one God tells Joshua that all the land that his foot treads on will be given to him, just as he had promised to Moses (1:3).
In the last chapter of the book where Joshua gives his famous, "Choose for yourselves this day" sermon, Joshua calls the people to be faithful to God primarily because God had been faithful to them. He highlights God's faithfulness to their forefathers (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), to their own fathers whom God brought out of Egypt, and then to them in their own day as God had given them the land, just as he had promised (24:1-13).
In the same way, God has been faithful to us. The story of ancient Israel is our story. God was being faithful to us when he fulfilled the promises in the Old Testament, and ultimately, the story of Joshua is a foreshadowing of the story of Jesus. The names "Joshua" and "Jesus" have the same meaning: "Jehovah Saves!" Jehovah has been faithful to his promise to us. Jehovah has saved us in our Joshua (Jesus).
Father, thank you for your faithfulness to us. We vow this day to be faithful to you.
