DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR WEDNESDAY MARCH 24:
WORD OF WISDOM
Here's a genius idea if you are looking for a face mask that is lite weight
and easy to breathe through:
"Wrap your face in toilet paper! And if you want a better filter go with
2-ply!"
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DAILY DEVOTION
How Faith Is Lost
"And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there
arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the
works which he had done for Israel. And the children of Israel did evil in
the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: And they forsook the LORD God of
their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed
other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed
themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger."
Judges 2:10-12
God's plan for faith to be transferred from one generation to the next is
for those who have seen His work for themselves to pass that knowledge on to
their children and those they lead to Him. If we are not faithful to
accomplish that task, the results will quickly become catastrophic. Joshua
and the leaders of his generation served God faithfully and led the people
well. But they failed miserably at transferring their knowledge of God to
the next generation.
Former Education Secretary William Bennett wrote: "Today's ordinary citizen
is living off the stored up moral capital of another century's experience."
That accurate description highlights the true problem facing our country and
our churches today. We cannot continue to coast on the faith of the past. We
need people who are walking with God now rather than simply reliving the
days of the past when others walked with Him and saw Him work.
Our children and grandchildren need to see God as real and at work in our
lives so that they too will love, fear, and serve Him rather than following
other gods in their heart. The knowledge of the true and living God is a
vital inheritance-far more important than money or property or anything else
that we could leave to those who follow us.
Do your part to pass on your faith to your family and church so that the
future will not be without that faith.
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DAILY BIBLE READING
Joshua
Joshua 14 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
14 Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders of all the tribes
of Israel decided what land to give to the people. 2 The Lord had commanded
Moses long ago how he wanted the people to choose their land. The people of
the nine and a half tribes threw lots to decide which land they would get. 3
Moses had already given the two and a half tribes their land east of the
Jordan River. The tribe of Levi did not receive any land like the other
tribes. 4 The descendants of Joseph had divided into two tribes-Manasseh and
Ephraim. Each of these tribes received some land; the tribe of Levi was not
given any land. They were given only some towns scattered throughout the
other tribes and some fields around those towns for their animals. 5 The
Lord had told Moses how to divide the land among the tribes of Israel. The
Israelites divided the land the way the Lord had commanded.
Caleb Gets His Land
6 One day some people from the tribe of Judah went to Joshua at Gilgal. One
of them was Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite. Caleb said to Joshua,
"You remember what the Lord said at Kadesh Barnea. The Lord was speaking to
Moses, his servant.[a] The Lord was talking about you and me. 7 Moses, the
Lord's servant, sent me to look at the land where we were going. I was 40
years old at that time. When I came back, I told Moses what I thought about
the land. 8 The other men who went with me told the people things that made
them afraid. But I really believed that the Lord would allow us to take that
land. 9 So that day Moses made a promise to me. He said, 'The land where you
went will become your land. Your children will own that land forever. I will
give you that land because you really believed in the Lord, my God.'
10 "Now the Lord has kept me alive for 45 more years-as he said he would.
During that time we all wandered in the desert. Now, here I am, 85 years
old. 11 I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. I am
as ready to fight as I was then. 12 So give me the hill country that the
Lord promised me that day long ago. At that time you heard that the strong
Anakites lived there and the cities were very big and well protected. But
now, maybe the Lord will be with me, and I will take that land just as the
Lord said."
13 Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh. Joshua gave him the city of Hebron
as his own. 14 And that city still belongs to the family of Caleb son of
Jephunneh the Kenizzite. That land still belongs to his people because he
trusted and obeyed the Lord, God of Israel. 15 In the past that city was
called Kiriath Arba. It was named for the greatest man among the Anakites-a
man named Arba.
After this there was peace in the land.
Footnotes:
Joshua 14:6 his servant Literally, "the man of God."
