the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Joshua 4:9-24
At the command of the LORD, Joshua had twelve stones taken from the river bed. At the same place he erected twelve other stones which the waters would cover (v. 9). "What do these stones mean for us?" (v. 6). The letter to the Romans interprets their meaning. They represent believers identified with Christ in His death (at the bottom of the river) as well as in His resurrection (on the river bank in Canaan —Romans 6:5).
The oneness of the people is also declared by the twelve stones (twelve tribes) which together form one monument. Let us not forget that this mighty act was accomplished for all the redeemed, even if many are unaware of it. The double memorial stands as a permanent witness to the fact.
So the cross made available to me three tremendous deliverances, which are illustrated by the Passover, the Red Sea and the Jordan. The Passover teaches me that I am delivered from the judgment of God. The Red Sea teaches me that I am set free from my eternal enemies, Satan and the world. Finally, the Jordan declares to me that I have the authority to consider as dead that tyrannical internal enemy, the flesh. The first two truths are grasped when we are born again, but the third corresponds to what has been called deliverance.
