Be strong and of a good courage.

I have been finding some openings (as the old Quakers used to say) in the book of Joshua recently. In the past when I’ve read the book, I always felt somewhat disappointed: not much life in it apart from the dramatic crossing of Jordan and the conquest of Jericho. But lately there’s been fresh illumination in my reading of it, and so I take it that we are entering the time in which our Lord is about to fulfill this long-desired concluding chapter in His purposes in His people—what He calls “the day of redemption,” the day when He brings His people into the purchased possession: our inheritance, with all the awesome implications of this.