Finite Obstacles Infinite Truth

By Rob Anthony

People want to relate with others through stories. People often make sense of their lives through relatable similarities that they see in others' lives. In fact, it is very possible that a story is what brought you to read this book. Stories are critical to humans interacting with each other and making sense of the events that occur in this fall

• Language: English
• Publisher: Truth Enlightens Me LLC
• Release date: Mar 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781737606710

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LESSON 1

Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get your supplies ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you for your own’.

JOSHUA 1:11

I chose to use this passage from Joshua for my first lesson because this verse begins with the action verb go. The writing of this book admittedly represents a big go step for me. I spent many years knowing I needed to publish, but I instead decided to linger in the background and watch others do what God also called me to do. Just as the Lord wanted me to go and write, he also gave the command to go to Joshua, the new leader of the Israelites who had succeeded Moses. The Israelites were at that time camping in the desert wilderness of the Sinai Peninsula and had been for forty years. Of the Israelites that had left Egypt and made the miraculous crossing of the Red Sea,²³ only Joshua and his friend Caleb remained. All others were descendants of the original people who came out of Egypt.

This passage is relevant to our lives today, for it gives us an excellent example of what we are to do because of the fact that God has promised each of us Christians a life of abundance in Christ. The Israelites were called to take possession of their Promised Land, and we too are called according to the fullness of the Lord to do what he has gifted us to do, and those gifts and that calling are irrevocable.²⁴ However, one thing many of us do that prohibits us from receiving the blessings God has in store for us is that we tend to camp out in our own wildernesses. God told Joshua to go take possession of the land the Lord God is giving you for your own, and often times we do not heed a very similar call. Instead of us going and taking possession of what God wants for us, we instead become campers when we should be conquerors.

Romans 8:37 informs us that "We are more than conquerors through him (Jesus) who loved us. (Emphasis the author’s) The words more than" mean we are even something greater than just a conqueror; we are in fact children of the living God.²⁵ When people camp, they sometimes go out and make semi-permanent monuments of their presence in an area away from their given habitat. I can remember two summers when I was in 7th and 8th grade when my father and I drove to a New Mexican desert to assist with some archaeology work on an isolated mesa with a professor from Southern Methodist University. I remember very vividly that after a long day’s work of digging and sifting, I and many other people there for the one-week period would use a stick to etch into the sandstone rocks a permanent message. Some simply wrote their names; others wrote a message along with the date it was written. Unless those stones are gone, a monument from the past was permanently made in that desert, but we all left that area and went back to our daily