Joshua 1:8 captures what the book of Joshua is all about. Let me encourage you to memorize it: “Do not let this book of the law depart from your mouth. Meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.”
Joshua 4 illustrates this. The nation of
So that they would never forget the miracle and the principal of explicit obedience to what God says, leaders of the twelve tribes were to pick up twelve large stones from the riverbed, carry them up to the west bank and build a memorial there with them.
Verse 6 says, “In the future when your children ask you, ‘what do these stones mean?’ tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the
Do you have any memorials that are a springboard to sharing significant events in your life and what God has said to you during those times? Such memorials become memory faith-builders to you and others.