What Will We See Tomorrow?

Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out from Shittim. And they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over. At the end of three days the officers went through the camp and commanded the people, “As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it. Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.” 

Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”
Joshua 3:1-5 ESV

For three days, they had been camped near a flood-stage river that was overflowing its banks. For those of us who live in parts of the world that are subject to flash floods, we know fast-moving flood water is treacherous and deadly. If you've ever watched a video of a rescue attempt of someone caught in a flash flood in a drainage ditch, you get an idea of what the Jordan was like that day.

People will argue that the Jordan River wasn't all that wide (ordinarily about 100 feet wide) and believed to be about 10 feet deep. In reality, challenging enough on a normal day. This was harvest time and the Jordan was flooded. They'd watched it for three days...

They'd never passed that way before and didn't know how they were going to then... but Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”  What would they see on the morrow? And what does it mean to consecrate oneself? It is to prioritize spiritual things over physical things. It is to intentionally avoid what might keep us from connecting with God or steal our time with Him. 

If you're stepping out to a place you've never been and you don't know where or how you'll get there and you're facing a raging river, I don't think they hesitated one nano-second about consecrating themselves, do you? 

Think about this. What would we see tomorrow if we consecrated ourselves today?

Prayer:

Father,

          We long to see lives changed. Impossible situations overcome by Your supernatural grace and power. Use us as instruments of Your righteousness to spread the Gospel to our families and friends, our cities and nations. Help us, O Lord, to consecrate ourselves today so that we would see Your wonders tomorrow. In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen