Theme For David Jeremiah Daily Devotional February 11 2022 – Impossible Tasks?
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
Joshua 1:9
Recommended Reading: Deuteronomy 31:8
It’s June 1944. General Dwight Eisenhower, commander of Allied forces, gives you the following instructions: “I need you to assemble a force to invade Europe, liberate France, secure the defense and liberation of Western Europe, and defeat the Nazi military forces.” In real time, it took more than a year of planning among more than a dozen Allied nations to achieve the liberation of Europe. Some tasks are simply too large for any one person to accomplish.
That must have been how Joshua felt when God told him (paraphrasing), “Lead the Israelites into Canaan, drive out the pagan inhabitants, and secure the land as a homeland for My people.” But then God gave Joshua the key to accomplishing his assignment: “The Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” God promised Joshua he would not be alone. And that promise applies to us as well. We are not alone when we set out on our seemingly impossible tasks either.
God does not commission us without the promise of His presence and provision. We only have to be “strong and of good courage.”
Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.
C. T. Studd
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