IT IS FOR HIS GLORY

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Joshua 4:23-24

For the Lord your God dried up the river right before your eyes, and he kept it dry until you were all across, just as he did at the Red Sea when he dried it up until we had all crossed over.

He did this so all the nations of the earth might know that the Lord’s hand is powerful, and so you might fear the Lord your God forever.”


The miracles of God are for His glory, all His mighty works and act. It is foolishness to get carried away by being an instrument in God's hand to ascribe glory to oneself, it is calling for disaster.


Remember this is the one singular act that caused Moses the opportunity to enter the promised land.


Isaiah 42:8

“I am the Lord; that is my name! 

I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share my praise with carved idols.


To remain relevant in the things of God without being a cast away, we must recognize who has the glory.


Joshua was now displayed to the people as the replacement for Moses and as God does He begins by displaying His power through Him. Remember when God called Moses He gave Him power to display to the people to let them know that He was sent from God.


Exodus 4:2-5

Then the Lord asked him, “What is that in your hand?”“A shepherd’s staff,” Moses replied.

“Throw it down on the ground,” the Lord told him. So Moses threw down the staff, and it turned into a snake! Moses jumped back.

Then the Lord told him, “Reach out and grab its tail.” So Moses reached out and grabbed it, and it turned back into a shepherd’s staff in his hand.

“Perform this sign,” the Lord told him. “Then they will believe that the Lord, the God of their ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—really has appeared to you.”


Joshua too had to display the evidence of God's presence with him for him to be accepted by the people.


Joshua 4:14

That day the Lord made Joshua a great leader in the eyes of all the Israelites, and for the rest of his life they revered him as much as they had revered Moses.


When the Lord uses you to display His glory never get above your head to take the glory, it is disastrous. The glory must be to the Lord.


Revelation 4:11

“You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. 

For you created all things, 

and they exist because you created what you pleased.”


The glory belongs to God and the blessings is ours.


So,


Colossians 3:17

And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.


If we walk this way we will remain victorious.


PRAYER

Lord use me to display Your glory to the whole world. All the glory is yours and I enjoy the blessings, this is a good deal. Thank You Father for You are always there for me. Glory to Your name Lord forevermore.


He calls us blessed.


Love

@the watcher.

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