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Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Devotional: December 28th

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Joshua 23:1-13

In his turn Joshua comes to the end of his career. "Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written . . . " he says to the heads of the people (v. 6). It was the word the LORD had spoken to him at the start (Joshua 1:7), a word which Moses had repeated many times. And still today this is the very instruction we need. Many people find the Gospel old and outdated. They have "itching ears" to hear new things (2 Timothy 4:3). Let us thank the Lord for servants who do not tire of repeating the same truths and of giving the same exhortations. "To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous", affirms Paul to the Philippians, "but for you it is safe." (Philippians 3:1). Let us therefore not grow weary of hearing them.

To mention and talk of the gods of the other nations is the first step to swearing by them, then serving them, and finally bowing down before them (v. 7). This is why the epistle to the Ephesians enjoins us not even to mention the impure, foolish and unbecoming things of the world "as becometh saints" (Ephesians 5:3-4). Perhaps we do not always take enough care about the language we use! May others recognize by our language that we are disciples of Jesus! (Matthew 26:73 in contrast with v. 74).

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