FAITH CAPSULE: Get serious with your time in the word and God’s success (good success), will get to you.
Joshua 1
The word of God is God. The book of John 1:13 said it better and made it clearer stating, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.” Spending time on the Word of God is spending time to listen to God. The Bible makes us to realize that, “if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the LORD your God.” (Deuteronomy 28:1-2) God was speaking to the children of Israel on their way to the Promised Land. What God said to one speaks to all. It is good to listen to the Word of God, but it is not enough when there is no obedience to what His Word says to you. Doing what the Word says is obedience. Without observing what the Word says, the chance of doing what the Word says is not possible.
Just as commanded by God, observing the Word of God is obeying God. The key to obeying is in the Word of God to Joshua as stated in Joshua 1:8, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it.” The Word of God in His book of law demands meditation day and night before it becomes a thing of observation. Until the Word of God becomes what you constantly and consistently observe, doing accordingly to it is not going to be possible. Often time believers memorize to quote the word of God instead of meditate to observe and know to do the word of God. Clearly the message is not only about memorizing, but also meditating. There is no better way it can be emphasized more than when God repeatedly warned Joshua about the need to observe the Word in the book of Joshua chapter one. God is not talkative, but when He talks it has to be activated for the result to be accomplished. There has to be meditation day and night to be able to observe and do according to the Word. Get serious with your time in the Word and good success, which is God’s success (not just success), will get to you.
Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to live by God’s, instruction, teaching and guidance that is laid in the ages of the bible for all who observe the word of God.