Quiet Time a.k.a mini SermON

Joshua c1v9 "This is my command - be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."

this is what has helped me through,

neither because I listened and said, "I will be strong", nor because I said, "I can be courageous!"....

cos I was weak, and I was afraid, before I came to sydney, before I started my course, and before I took my exams.

but because the Lord my God is "with me wherever I go".

you know, as i think upon this verse... it's not a verse that psyches us up like a motivational speaker... not like one that stands in the pulpuit and says, "Be strong, Be courageous, Have no fear, You are bigger than what you think... ", it's not like that.

but as I come to realise, the Lord my God is with me wherever I go...
and as these words sinks in, and realise that God really actually with me right there and then, at that moment. that God is not just there in a verse in my mind.
really, that's the reason to be comforted in times of fear! and that's enough reason to be strong and courageous.

"For the Lord is with you wherever you go."
Acutally, that's a more than enough reason for me to be strong and courageous, especially when you start to claim promises from God, just like how the Israelites claimed the Pomised land.