Joshua- leader of a generation in Israel

Keduovilie Linyü 
Kohima 

Joshua was the leader of a generation in Israel. The previous generation ended up dying in the wilderness because of their unbelief. Their people lived under a curse until every last one of them died. But this hungry new Joshua company began to seek God. Their hearts sole cry is to walk in holiness. They were ready to declare war on anything that stood in the way of their entering into the fullness of the Lord God promised them. Joshua was the last leader to take up the charge of commander on any of angels, heavenly soldiers who stood ready to take up the fight for Israel, “When  the commander of army  of the Lord have come, Joshua fell down face down…take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy”. (Joshua 5:13) Suddenly, the Israelites were in the Promised Land and Jericho promptly shut its gates, and now they were marching fearlessly around the walls of the city. Yet, the men of Jericho never tried to  attack the Israel soldiers. When the wall collapse and so every man charged straight in and they took the city. They devoted the city to the land and destroyed everything with the sword.

There are many righteousness persons  and their life may be pleasing to God. Again, they may have plenty  of faith , but they do not have the patience required to wait on God to fulfill His promise. Abraham’s faith made him righteous in God’s eyes. But Abraham did not possess the patience right away. He had to learn patience . You may remember some of his sinful activities during the long years of  dryness before God’s promise  came. When Abraham agreed with his wife to try and to produce their promise son through another mother, that certainly was not an act of faith- brought on fleshly impatient. Eventually, God brought Abraham to a place of faith when he inherited  the promise, but, it happen only when he acquired patience. Why? He was required to wait a quarter of a century before God fulfilled His word to him. 

When God made this promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater him to swear by, he swore by  himself, saying , ‘I will surely bless you and give you many descendants”. And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised. (Heb 6:13-14)

God chose David to be a righteous  man. Yet, if we were to judge David’s life by the way we judge our own, we could not think of him as righteous at all. He committed adultery , covered it up, murdered the man whose wife he slept with, then lied about it all (even to a prophet of the Lord). Think about it had David been a minister in our day, even to the most liberal denomination would not hesitate to defrock  him.  Today, his evil deeds would be splashed all over the front pages and  beamed  onto television screens. David has a repentance heart  and most of all, he did not trust in his own righteous but in the Lord. ‘O Lord my God…. Let them not rejoice over me … my tongue shall speak of your righteousness all day long. (Ps. 35:24,28). David was thirty years old when he became King and  reigned for forty years. (2 Sam 5:4)