Joshua 1:8-11
Before the spies went to sleep that night, Rahab went up on the roof to talk with them. 9 “I know the Lord has given you this land,” she told them. “We are all afraid of you. Everyone in the land is living in terror. 10 For we have heard how the Lord made a dry path for you through the Red Sea when you left
The entire nation of Israel except for two people feared the giants and warriors in the Promised Land so much that would rather go back to Egypt as slaves to die as slaves than live in freedom in their own country (Numbers 13:25- 14:4). As punishment for their faithless disobedience they died out in the wilderness wandering around for forty long years. Now, in the Book of Joshua, we are learning from Rahab that God had already prepared the way for the Israelites long ago. Rahab and her people anticipated the Israelites coming and trembled in fear before the Lord. They had no courage to fight God’s people. What a shame,
How often do we allow fear to stop us for obeying the Lord, only to find out a little later that what was stopping us was only in our minds? I think all of us are guilty of this from time to time. God brings the next great challenge in our life to help us grow stronger to help others and we find something about the challenge strikes fear in our hearts and stops us dead in our tracks. Now we have a dilemma, if we act in fear we stay right where we are in our own proverbial dessert wandering around but going nowhere. If we have a “duck-and-run” kind of faith we learn that God had already prepared the way for us and there was never anything to fear.
Most of us have experienced this throughout our walk with God but when we find something to fear we need to make the right decision. Some of the people in our church are facing this very thing.
Based on your experience, what are some things they can do to squash their fear and have that “duck-and-run” kind of faith?”
