Key Words: and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed
Joshua had lived a full life. We know that he is over the age of 80. The term “well stricken in years” means over 80. Yet God wasn’t through with Joshua yet; he still had unfinished business to take care of. Two lessons we learn from this portion of Scripture: age is never an excuse not to serve; and secondly, we are never to rest on our past achievements. There will always be unfinished business of God’s that needs to be done.
An older man began cutting trees to construct a log house. A neighbor who knew him and his age asked, “Isn’t this too large an undertaking for one person who is no longer young?”
“It would be,” replied the elderly man, “if I looked beyond the chopping of the trees and sawing of the logs and picturing myself laying the foundation and erecting the walls and putting on the roof. Carrying the load all at once would exhaust me. But it isn’t much of a job to cut down this one tree, and that’s all I have to do right now.”
The moral of the story is take one thing at a time and do it – then that which is unfinished will be finished. So it is in all of our lives, no matter what our age.
What to do:
✞ Finish the course.
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