Joshua 4-6 [The Message]

After the Hebrews had crossed the Jordan and witnessed a mighty miracle, they were obedient and submitted to circumcision. Painful though it was, at the conclusion, God came to Joshua as the Commander of the Lord’s Armies. Joshua knelt before the Lord upon the holy ground.

Although God is always watching and keeping us, He responds affirmatively to our obedience. We need His presence as we take steps in the direction of our next conquest.

Your obedience may take the form of a period of fasting, or the forsaking of a particular sin.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, [Heb. 12:1]