By He Reads Truth
Scripture Reading: Joshua 1:1-9, Joshua 3:1-17, Psalm 73:21-28, John 14:18-24
After you finish reading today’s Scriptures, come back and read the essay here to dig deeper into the ways we see this specific promise at work in our day’s reading. Then join your fellow Bible readers in the comments to reflect on and discuss what you’re learning!
Throughout the Old Testament, the Lord revealed His plans to His people and how they were to take hold of His promises. After Moses’s death, Joshua was charged with leading God’s people into the land God promised to them. And as they traveled, they carried a very tangible reminder of God’s presence with them: the ark of the covenant.
Those who went forward with Joshua walked with the presence of God guiding and protecting them. And because of Jesus’s resurrection, we now can live in the reality of what Jesus told His own disciples, “I am in my Father, you are in me, and I am in you” (Jn 14:20). The promise of life in God’s eternal presence is extended to all those who follow and obey Jesus. His presence is the good promise we have been given, wherever we may go (Ps 73:28).
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