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Christmas Devotional Memoir

Delay

Delay. Airport overflowing. Passengers waiting. Watching. Anxious. Resigned. Complaining. Shouting. 

Weary mom holds one child and corrals the others. Trying to get home before snow.

Couple returning from vacation. Using up all that relaxation in one day of flight cancellations. 

I sit beside a man from Newark. Started his day long before dawn. Now it’s late afternoon and his flight diverted from Pensacola to this small airport in Alabama. 

He’s trying to find another way to reach his destination. But rental cars are long gone. 

Delay. Image by Zichao Zhang on Unsplash.
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Devotional Making Disciples

As for me

“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”(Joshua 24:15 NASB). It comes down to a determined choice. 

Stating commitment to the Lord God is necessary. 

Otherwise, primary loyalties may return to previous idols. Or the gods of this present world.

As for me and my house…. Image by Priscilla du Preez on Unsplash.
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Devotional Making Disciples

Exhortation

Joshua receives the exhortation. “Be strong and courageous.” Hearing it loud and clear. Multiple times.

From the Lord. And from the people. (Joshua 1:6,7,9,18)

He’s stepping into leadership after one of the greatest leaders of all time. Moses. 

Certainly not for the faint of heart, this. Leading the multitudes. And entering the Promised Land.

Then. At the end of his life. He delivers the exhortation.

Exhortation. Image by Tim Wildsmith on Unsplash.