Monday, January 6, 2025

The Stones of Remembrance

Bible Reading:  Joshua 4:1-9

Key Verse: Verse 5 – “And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:”

Key Words: and take ye up every man of you a stone


The Lord had a reason for the removal of the stones.  When future generations would ask the meaning of the stones, their parents would be able to explain to their children how the waters were miraculously cut off before the Ark of the Covenant.  The stones were a memorial to both the power and work of God.  We all need a memorial of God’s blessings and working in our lives because we do have a tendency to forget.


The memorial stones would also be a reminder to those who wanted to cross back into Egypt.  We, as believers, never need to go back into our Egypt of carnality and the world.


Unfortunately, many believers get away from God and return to their old sinful lifestyle.


Robert Robinson wrote the wonderful hymn, “Come, Thou Fount,” when he was 23 years old.  The third stanza of the hymn says, “Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love.”  Robert was expressing a battle already taking place in his life, for later in his life Robert backslid and got far away from the Lord.  While riding a stagecoach one day, a worldly Robinson heard a woman humming his hymn.  She later engaged him in conversation and asked what he thought of the song.  Robinson was broken and overcome with emotion and said to this lady, “Madam, I am the poor unhappy man who wrote that hymn many years ago and I would give a thousand worlds if I had them, to enjoy the feelings I had back then.”  Sin doesn’t give, it takes.


                                                                                                        Dr. Mike Rouse


What to do:

Go back and re-visit the blessings of God in your life.

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