Hey there! I’m so glad you’re here, sweet friend! We’re on Day 22 of 90 in our reading plan to make it through the Bible from cover to cover in 90 days! Today our reading verses are Joshua 11-24! Wow, so much going in this new promised land!

So yeah, remember yesterday how Joshua and the nation take all of these kings and the southern cities?! Well buckle up because they’re about to take the northern kingdoms! You can scroll through Joshua to see this huge list of the defeated kings. They were on a mission, friends. They were doing as they were suppose to, conquering the promised land. So then the Lord basically tells Joshua . . . who has grown old, by the way . . . “hey man, you’re pretty old and there’s a lot of area left to cover, dude”. The Lord instructs Joshua to divide the land among the tribes of Israel.

“You have done all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and you have obeyed me in everything I commanded.  For a long time now—to this very day—you have not deserted your fellow Israelites but have carried out the mission the Lord your God gave you. Now that the Lord your God has given them rest as he promised, return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side of the Jordan. ⁵ But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.” Joshua 22:2-6

God gives Israel rest from their enemies and a long time has passed and Joshua has grown very, very old by now. He summoned together all of their
elders, leaders, judges and officials and He reminds them of what God has done for them, fighting for them (and He’s going to continue to fight for them) and He warns them to not worship other gods and to keep the law and be courageous and to love the Lord.

Again he took to the counsel and proclaimed the goodness of God and reminded the nation of what had been done for them, where they had come from and what they had been through.

“Then the people answered, “Far be it from us to forsake the Lord to serve other gods!” Joshua 24:16

The people claimed they’re going to love the Lord, they swore they would. Then Joshua dismissed them, each to their own inheritance (Joshua 24:28), and then at the age of 110, Joshua was buried at his inheritance, in the promised land.

The Bible tell us, “choose this day for whom yourselves you will serve.” Wow. Wasn’t this just meant for me?

As my Pastor likes to say, “Can I just be real with ya’?” Well let me be real with you. I know that the Lord can use anything, any Word to give us a word – if you know what I mean, and this evening whenever I read that verse I thought . . . wow. I’m so sorry. I get it.

I get it.

I hear you, Lord.

Here’s the thing, today – and really, even this week – I haven’t been serving the Lord, I’ve been serving myself. I’ve been serving my anxiety and my own strengths. I know I feel this incredible peace that’s hard to explain because I know, someway, somehow, He IS going to lay this all out as it’s meant to be, how it needs to be, and in ways that my finite mind could never comprehend. But.

Oh yea, but.

But that unbelief tries to pull me close and show me where the light is so I can do it all by myself without His help.

Oh yea, but.

But . . . I still like to play “keep a way” from daddy. I like to try to take things out of His hands when He’s not working on my schedule, in my time line or time frame of when I think is reasonable or even acceptable. I like to try to “Help Him Out”. Oops. Yup, that’s me. I do it sometimes.

So yeah, I’ve been over here stressing most of the week. I’m feeling pretty terrible with these dizzy spells I’m having and it’s completely messing with me, plus I’m concerned about my mama and some stuff she’s got going on with a pending (major) surgery, and then all this with my daughter . . . have mercy! No insurance, no help with her formula, and now – tonight – she’s on the floor crying, “I need my pink medicine, I want my pink medicine, Please, mommy, please!” She’s been off her antibiotic for one week (tomorrow). It’s something she takes 3x a day, every day, and has for 2 1/2 years. It helps her to not vomit as badly by helping the gastroparesis which is one of her many health issues. My heart is breaking knowing she can’t get back on it until this next test at Children’s Hospital. So I’ve consistently went to the computer or my phone or my friends. My first thought IS to talk to God about it (and yes I’ve prayed a lot about this) but then every time between actually praying to Him, when I get a moment, I find myself getting (purposely) distracted or trying to “fix” things myself and I have been letting Him be an afterthought . . . because I know He’s going to be there and He’s not going anywhere.

Wow, I’m a selfish little kid sometimes, it seems!!!

This verse though . . . who will you choose to serve?

It doesn’t mean just a golden or bronze calf or statue somewhere . . . whatever you’re giving more attention and energy to than God is what you’re serving and right now mine is anxiety and worrisome thoughts.

I needed this heart check. I needed a reminder to count my blessings.

So girls (or guys, I know we have a few), check your heart and count your blessings tonight!

“But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15

Day 22 Joshua 11 – 24

Day 23 Judges 1 – 10

Day 24 Judges 11 – 21

Day 25 Ruth 1 –   4

Day 26 1 Samuel 1 – 16

Day 27 1 Samuel 17 – 1 Samuel 31

Day 28 2 Samuel 1 – 24

Day 29 1 Kings 1 – 22

Day 30 2 Kings 1 – 25

Day 31 1 Chronicles 1 – 8

Day 32 1 Chronicles 9 – 19

Day 33 1 Chronicles 20 – 29

Day 34 2 Chronicles 1 – 21

Day 35 2 Chronicles 22 – 36

Day 36 Ezra 1-  Ezra 10

Day 37 Nehemiah 1 –  Nehemiah 13

Day 38 Esther 1 –  Esther 10

Day38 Job 1 –  Job 23

Day 39 Job 24 –  Job 42

Day 40 Psalms 1 –  Psalms 21

Day 41 Psalms 22 – Psalms 60

Day 42 Psalms 61 – Psalms 90

Day 43 Psalms 91 – Psalms 115

Day 44 Psalms 116 – Psalms 150

Day 45 Proverbs 1 – Proverbs 15

Day 46 Proverbs 16 – Proverbs 31

Day 47 Ecclesiastes 1 – Ecclesiastes 12

Day 48 Song of Solomon 1 – Song of Solomon 8

Day 49 Isaiah 1 –  Isaiah 27

Day 50 Isaiah 28 – Isaiah 66

Day 51 Jeremiah 1 – Jeremiah 20

Day 52 Jeremiah 21 – Jeremiah 52

Day 53 Lamentations 1 – Lamentations 5

Day 54 Ezekiel 1 – Ezekiel 22

Day 55 Ezekiel 23 – Ezekiel 48

Day 56 Daniel 1 – Daniel 12

Day 57 Hosea 1 – Hosea 14

Day 58 Joel 1 – Joel 3

Day 59 Amos 1 – Amos 9

Day 60 Obadiah 1

Day 61 Jonah 1 – Jonah 4

Day 62 Micah 1 – Micah 7

Day 63 Nahum 1 – Nahum 3

Day 64 Habakkuk 1 – Habakkuk 3

Day 65 Zephaniah 1 – Zephaniah 3

Day 66 Haggai 1 – Haggai 2

Day 67 Zechariah 1 – Zechariah 14

Day 68 Malachi 1 – Malachi 4

NEW TESTAMENT

Day 69 Matthew 1 – Matthew 28

Day 70 Mark 1 – 16

Day 71 Luke 1 – Luke 12

Day 72 Luke 13 – Luke 24

Day 73 John 1 – John 21

Day 74 Acts 1 – Acts 15

Day 75 Acts 16 – Acts 28

Day 76 Romans 1 – Romans 16

Day 77 1 Corinthians 1 – 1 Corinthians 16

Day 78 2 Corinthians 1 – 2 Corinthians 13

Day 79 Galatians 1 – Galatians 6

Day 80 Ephesians 1 – Ephesians 6

Day 81 * Philippians 1 – Philippians 4 (Morning)

                Colossians 1 – Colossians 4 ( Afternoon)

                1 Thessalonians 1 – 1 Thessalonians 5 (Bedtime)

Day 82 2 Thessalonians 1 – 2 Thessalonians 3 (Morning)

                1 Timothy 1 – 1 Timothy 6  (Afternoon)

                2 Timothy 1 – 2 Timothy 4 (Bedtime)

Day 83 Titus 1 – Titus 3 (Morning )

                Philemon 1 (Afternoon)

                Hebrews 1 – Hebrews 13 (Bedtime)

Day 84 James 1 –  James 5  (Morning)

                1 Peter 1 – 1 Peter 5 (Afternoon)

                2 Peter 1 – 2 Peter 3 (Bedtime)

Day 85 1 John 1 – 1 John (Morning)

                2 John 1 (Afternoon)

                3 John  (Bedtime)

Day 86 Jude 1

Day 87 Revelation 1 – Revelation 6

Day 88 Revelation 7 – Revelation 18

Day 89 Revelation 19 – Revelation 22

Day 90 – PRAISE!