Joshua
Our men's and women's Bible studies at church will be studying Joshua beginning tomorrow and going for several weeks.  We have been encouraged to read the book of Joshua beforehand so we have a framework already.  In rereading the first chapter, this promise of God to Joshua stood out to me:  "No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life.  Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.  I will not leave you or forsake you." (1:5).  What a tremendous set of promises!  And the last of those is repeated for us in the book of Hebrews:  "I will not leave you or forsake you." (13:5).  And that brings me to Romans 8:31-39:  "What then shall we say to these things?  If God is for us, who can be against us?  He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?  Who shall bring any charge against God's elect?  It is God who justifies.  Who is to condemn?  Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that, who was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.  Who shall separate us  from the love of Christ?  Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?  As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height not depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."