Don't Forget to Remember

Glory Days
Joshua 4:1-5:12

The book of Joshua isn't about claiming real estate for a dislocated nation. It's about preserving a stage for God's redemption plan. Satan's counterstrategy was to contaminate the Promised Land and prempt the promised child. Joshua's battle was a spiritual one. So is ours. (Ephesians 6:12-16)

Satan is a real and present foe of our faith. Any person wo has dared to draw near to God has felt Satan's attack. He has one objective: to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10).

After the people had crossed the Jordan River, Joshua commanded one man from each tribe to get a stone from where the priests stood. He stacked them and told the people they were to be a reminder of what God had done (vv. 21-23).

The secret to survival in enemy territory? Remember what God has done. Satan has no recourse to your testimony. Your best weapon is a good memory.

Remember whose you are. God commanded the men to be circumcised before they continued (Joshua 5:2). This would once again identify them as God's chosen people. It was a symbolic separation from the past; a new identity. No longer slaves, but free.

Believers experience a spiritual circumcision. (Colossians 2:11). You are not the person you used to be (Ephesians 4:22, 24). Who are you?

God's child (John 1:12)
Christ's friend (John 15:15)
A member of Christ's body (1 Corinthians 12:27)
A saint (Ephesians 1:1)
Redeemed and forgiven of all your sins (Colossians 1:14)
Complete in Christ, lacking nothing (Colossians 2:10)
Free from condemnation (Romans 8:1-2)
God's co-worker (2 Corinthians 6:1)
Seated with Christ in the heavenly realm (Ephesisans 2:6)
God's workmanship (Ephesians 2:10)
A citizen of heaven (Philippians 3:20)
Adopted into God's family (Ephesians 1:5)
Born of God and the evil one cannot touch you (1 John 5:18)
I have been bought with a price. I belong to God (1 Corinthians 6:20)
I have not been given a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7)
I cannot be separated from the love of God (Romans 8:35)
I can find grace and mercy at the time of need (Hebrews 4:16)
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Philippians 4:13)

-From Glory Days by Max Lucado; Chapter 6

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