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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Old Thoughts for the New Day, continued
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. (Romans 6:4—NIV)
Will God ever have people who will wait on Him without going to sleep?—who will follow the Lord patiently, not going ahead of Him or lagging behind?
The hour is close at hand when no man can work. Christian enterprises shall fall by the wayside or become part of Babylon the Great. Only those who have died in the Lord and have become part of the Presence of God through Christ will be able to stand and help others.
God has made a provision for us that will enable us to be more than conquerors through the darkest of the hours we are entering: it is to be filled with His Person to a greater degree than we have known so we are living and moving only in and with Him.
In the day to come we will live by Jesus Christ as He lives by the Father. If this is what you desire, then let the Lord know about it.
When the Israelites came to the Jordan River it was at flood stage, overflowing its banks. When the feet of the priests who were carrying the ark touched the water's edge the water from upstream stopped flowing. The water flowing downstream soon vanished and the riverbed appeared.
The priests with the ark took their stand on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan.
All the Israelites, with the exception of the families of Reuben, Gad, and half of Manasseh, who remained in the plains of Moab, marched across the riverbed.
Then the Lord directed that one man from each of the twelve tribes take a stone from the middle of the riverbed and set up a memorial pillar where Israel camped for the night, on the west side of the Jordan.
In addition, a pillar of twelve stones was set up in the middle of the Jordan where the priests had stood.
The two pillars, one set up on the west bank and one in the middle of the Jordan, are symbolic of our death and resurrection in the Lord Jesus Christ. Our adamic nature is represented by the pillar left on the riverbed of the Jordan, to be covered over once the water began flowing again.
Our new resurrection life with the Lord Jesus Christ is portrayed by the pillar of twelve stones erected on the west bank where the army camped for the night.
Canaan represents our inheritance. Our inheritance consists of God and Christ Themselves, eternal life in Their Presence, the new Jerusalem, the nations and farthest reaches of the earth, exceedingly great fruitfulness, and exceedingly great dominion. All these are ours through our Lord Jesus Christ.
In order to fully enter our inheritance we have to go through three deaths and three resurrections.
The first death is death to the world. We must leave the world to follow the Lord Jesus. The first resurrection is our membership in the family of God—all those who are called by the name of the Father. This is the Red Sea.
To be continued.