This verse, Joshua 21:44, is a groundswell up to this very age. Not only did God give them rest from 40 years of wilderness travels, and rest from the fatigue of battle against the Canaanites, but also rest from the pressures and thoughts and emotions within where they battled too. All the days of Joshua. God gave rest on every side. Oh God! You write these verses as a ground of hope and confidence to me this very night. Give me rest on every side. I've spent decades following You and have sought a rest from the physical labor and the woes of life. This recorded experience stands my ground, my confidence in You and what You will yet do. In due time.
LAST words are so important. Those are the ones you lean in close to hear. Look at what this great man utters: “Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.15 But just as all the good things the Lord your God has promised you have come to you, so he will bring on you all the evil things he has threatened, until the Lord your God has destroyed you from this good land he has given you. 16 If you violate the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you.” Josh 23:14-16
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