How
reassuring and comforting to know that God is with us, that He will bless and
will use us for His ultimate glory! The Lord God was establishing Joshua as the
new leader of Israel after Moses. In man’s eye succeeding such a great man of
God, would be a hard ‘act to follow’, but Joshua wasn’t relying on his own
skill or talent, he was trusting God. Yahwah is no respecter of persons and
will work through whomsoever He chooses. Through His perfect plan and purpose,
He would show Israel that He stood by this leader and worked through him, just
as He did with Moses. God’s servants do not need to promote their own selves,
if they are called of God to a task, and trust Him, He will do the promoting.
The text uses the word ‘magnify’, to mean that God would use His power to show
His endorsement of Joshua. That is how the Lord does it! He arranges things and
circumstances and through His own strength and ability, shows that His hand is
on and in the life of a man He wants to use. The anointing He places on the
individual to function and perform His will, makes it clear that it is not
man’s doing, but the Lord’s. Man without God, often acts differently, he will
do his utmost to demonstrate his own value, ability and superiority, by comparing
and attempting to be better than others around him. This striving is
unnecessary in the church of the Living God, for He rewards the humble, and
lifts him to what position or task He determines. What we need to do is follow
His Spirit and remain self-less and unpretentious when God chooses in His love
and grace to bless us, and use us for His glory!
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