the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Joshua 3:1-13
Just as the Red Sea blocked Israel’s way out of Egypt, so now the Jordan bars their way into Canaan. And the crossing of this river teaches us a new truth of supreme importance: that of our death with Christ. Even in this life the child of God is called to possess heaven by faith and enjoy it. Entering into Canaan is equivalent to that. But just as it was necessary to cross the Jordan, the river of death, to enter that land, so the Christian cannot enter into possession and taste its joys now without realising himself dead with Christ. The cross on which my Saviour laid down His life strikes down and condemns my natural corrupt will, that old nature which never stops trying to gain control over me and yet has no right to enter the heavenly realm. What anguish it causes me! Every effort I make to reform it is useless. How can I prevent it from doing harm or put it to death? I then discover with joy how that very thing has been accomplished once and for all on the cross and I must simply accept that fact as I did the forgiveness of my sins! Jesus was not only crucified for me. I have been crucified with Him (Galatians 2:20). These are the wonders which God has done for us (v. 5).
