JOSHUA GOT IT

Exodus 33: 7-11

When all is said and done I will dwell with God and He will be with me as my God forever.  He will wipe away every tear of loneliness, misunderstanding, mourning, and pain from my eyes and death will no longer be a matter of concern or worry.  All the former things that I spent time and energy on will have faded and passed away.  When all is said and done I will dwell with God and enjoy His Presence forever.  I will have found what I have been seeking all my life, in all my saying and doing, and it will be enough for me.

The more that prophetic vision takes hold of my heart, mind, and soul, the more it affects all that I say and do in my life here on earth.  When that prophetic vision becomes the one thing I desire, the one thing I seek, everything else falls into its proper place and maintains its proper perspective.  It’s the one necessary thing that Jesus commended Mary for choosing.  It’s the one thing that carried David throughout his life as a shepherd, as a king, and as a man after God’s own heart.  It’s the one response to Jesus’ question that he asks of all who follow him; “what are you seeking?”

There is a lot to be said and done in this world today.  It is easy to get caught up in the busyness of life, my own and others.  God calls us to reflect His image to a needy world.  It’s a fleshly temptation to run off half cocked into many endeavors, in many directions, and get overwhelmed and burnt out.

It is a fleshly temptation to lean on my own understanding of what God needs to be said and done in this world and so I say it and do it.  I get busy helping people enter into the Promise Land and be who and all that they can be in God.  I lose track of the prophetic vision that is the point of all I am doing and is to drive all that I say and do.

Joshua was called and commissioned by God to resume Moses’ task of getting people into the Promise Land.  He fulfilled that task by great works, time and energy.  But Joshua didn’t just show up one day ready to say and do what God called him to say and do.  Joshua, as a young man, followed in the steps of his mentor Moses to the tent of meeting where God spoke to Moses, imparting the prophetic vision He had for His people.  Joshua overheard the conversation.  He stayed behind at the tent even after Moses left.  He was seeking that one thing, the prophetic vision that would work in him and then drive all that he would be asked of God to say and do.

Joshua got it when he followed Moses to the tent of meeting and remained even after Moses left.