Notes of Faith May 2, 2025
All the Time
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. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Joshua 1:8
If you are a young person in love, you probably think about your beloved “day and night.” If you are facing a challenging situation at work, your focus is on finding a solution “day and night.”
In Hebrew culture, phrases like “day and night” and “east to west” serve as all-inclusive indicators. That is, “day and night” means “all the time.” It is natural for certain situations to consume our thoughts all the time. But Scripture admonishes us to focus on one thing in particular: God’s Word. When Joshua prepared to enter the Promised Land, God encouraged him to meditate on His Word continually (Joshua 1:8). Moses said that Israel’s kings should focus on God’s Word (Deuteronomy 17:18-20). And the psalmist promised blessedness to the one who meditates on God’s Word “day and night” (Psalm 1:1-2).
Consider how you can incorporate God’s Word into your thoughts “all the time” through reading, memorization, music, and other means.
It takes calm, thoughtful, prayerful meditation on the Word to extract its deepest nourishment.
Vance Havner
Deut 17:18-20
18 “Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. 19 “It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes, 20 that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.
Make sure that you are in the Word of God today. I am enjoying the “Living Desert” today with my family and still MUST spend time with the Lord first thing in the morning. Be prepared for your day, that nothing might cause you to be disturbed by what you may face, for the Lord is with you wherever you go!
Pastor Dale