Successful living is a promise of God

The charge to Joshua is filled with lessons for Christians on enjoying spiritual success and prosperity. Successful living is a promise of God, a gift of God, attainable by the help of God. Its potentialities are enormous, waiting only to be appropriated.

Enemies of the soul – Satan, the world, the flesh – need to be driven out, but they are the enemies of God, and so He promises all the help needed in conquering them. The condition laid to the Christian is costly but absolutely necessary: living in constant obedience in the light of God’s Word.

The blessings of victorious living come by invitation to the Christian, but the conditions for it’s fulfillment come by mandate.

Christians, like Joshua, cannot escape the divine words loud and clear: “Have I not commanded thee?” (Joshua 1:9)

Irving L. Jensen
Joshua, Rest-Land Won