God is Whole
“Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.” Joshua 21:45
Today, if we are on schedule, we will finish the book of Joshua, the history of Israel’s conquest of Canaan/Palestine. I say history because it is not a story like we think of. We watch stories when we watch TV. These wars happened in real life about 3500 years ago. Notice what we read in this text and just before it. God was perfectly faithful. Of all the things He said He would do, all were taken to the bank and all came back cashed in full. No late fees. No partial fulfillments. On time and full.
Can we not learn something of our God today? He has been around a long time. Do you think you can find a spot in Him? Some part that is flawed? He gives you time to survey. We have recordings about the creation, about the flood times, about an entire nation being dealt with corporately and individually, and many other events where God showed up pretty much till the present day. We even have a couple of comments about before the sins of men (Isa. 14, Eze. 28). Yet in all these things He remains whole. No nicks, no scratches. Not a shadow of turning. He remains the unchallenged Unchanged.
Can you not place your hope on Him then? When things turn for what we see to be bad, can we not trust our Father’s faithfulness? Of all His promises to us, which one do you think will not come to pass? Perhaps it is “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Do you doubt that one? Remember the story of Israel and Him bringing it to completion. There were giants there—big ones with six fingers on each hand (sons of Anak). The people of the land were as big as the land was good (climate has obviously changed a bit over there). Yet all the way through God did not forsake or forget His people. Do you recall the times when He did not go with them. We can think of two—when they disobeyed after doubting God when the spies came back forty years before they went in with the help of God, and when the fought against Ai and 36 men died because of the sin of Achan. Simply put, without God=get beat down, with God=the sun stands still and all enemies become victims. God was there and did not forsake them. Neither will He forget His children now.
Do you doubt that He can forgive your sins? This is not a common American problem. We are so universally arrogant that we think God owes us forgiveness. It is what He does, we say. But given how holy He is and thus how much He hates sin, surely we can’t fall into that category any more unless we cover our eyes and stop our ears. He is angry with the wicked every day (Ps. 7:11). We have seen how he reacts to Israel when they sin. But let us remember that it is not because Israel was a kind, benevolent nation that God gave them promises. It was because of the act of someone else—Abraham received the promise and it was passed to His children. Even so we were not given promises because of who we are, for our hearts are sinful. But because of the kindness of God and for the sake of Jesus, we were given great and precious promises. Even the forgiveness of our sins by the blood Jesus shed.
Let us thank God today that He never lies and always makes sure His promises come true. Today choose this day who you will serve—affirm it again. He alone is good. To quote Ethan Burmeister, “If you are not ravished by Jesus, you will be seduced by everything else.” Let us set our hearts to follow our faithful God.
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