A meditation on the incident of God’s people crossing the river Jordan.
The Promised Land by B.Dodd
When it was time for Joshua
To possess the promised land
And take all the people with him
God gave him this command.
‘Be strong and be courageous,
And In my law delight,
Meditate upon it
Both in the day and night.’
It was God who’d chosen Moses
Forty long years before
From Pharaoh’s power to free His people
And be Egypt’s slaves no more!
Yet they moaned and groaned continually
‘ We hate it here, ‘ they’d say.
We’d be better off in Egypt
Let’s go back by the same way!’
But after forty years of wandering
In the lonely wilderness’
The Lord had not forgotten them
And loved them none the less!
So God chose a man named Joshua
To lead His people then,
And gave them precious promises
To obey Him once again!
Joshua sent spies to Canaan
To view the enemies that were there,
And God-fearing Rahab hid them
Took the men into her care.
Rahab! What? a prostitute!
This surely couldn’t be?
Ah, but God in all His wisdom
Knew what the human eye can't see.
God took them to the Jordan,
Told the priests what they must do.
Put their feet into the water
Then lead the people through.
God stopped the river flowing,
To let the people cross,
And they made it over safely
Without trouble, without loss!
The promised land’s before us
We can enter and possess
For if we truly trust the Saviour
He has promised good success.
Not in health, wealth and prosperity
For whatever state we’re in
He will give us victory
Over fear and death and sin.
To fight in days ahead
But with faith and eyes on Jesus
There is nothing we should dread !
Lord, I do not know which river
You want me to cross today.
But of this one thing, I am certain
That you will guide me all the way
You ask me just to follow
Simply trust you and obey
And not worry where you take me
But hold on to You and pray.
