Good morning.  Thank you for the posts and prayers!  We are winding down with the treatments.

David is drained but his attitude is of gratitude.  Love and Hugs to you

this morning.  Wanted to share Parson Brown's (daddy) devotion with you this morning.

Recently our pastor, Bro. Steve Arnberg, began leading us in a study of Joshua.  As
he carried us through the first chapter, I got hung up on verse 11, "Go through the
camp and tell the people, 'Get your supplies ready.  Three days from now you will cross
the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you
for your own."' (NIV)
  They have spent some 40 years wandering around in the wilderness, and now God tells
them they have to wait for THREE DAYS!  Why must they wait? Waiting on God is one of the
most difficult things we learn in life.  Easter told Mordicai and the Jews to fast and
pray for three days before she would approach the king.  Jonah spent three days confined
to the inside of a monster fish.  Jesus waited four days before He went to Mary and
Martha, the sisters of Lazareth.  Why wait?
  For most of us, waiting three days is just not in us.  In our Western culture
lifestyle, we think that business and constant hurry is the mark of a productive life. 
Waiting is just not the way we do life.  We like the fast pace, the quick fix, and the
drive throughs.  One person even attempted to put a movie in his microwave so he could
see the whole thing in 10 minutes!
  As we consider the Book of Joshua, we find several reasons for them to wait the three
days. First of all, God was working in the life of someone in Jericho.  God works on His
time schedule and not ours.  He works in His ways and not ours.  There was this person by
the name of Rahab--yes a person of not so good a reputation.  But God was dealing in her
life.  Time was needed for the the spies to make contact and for her faith to be
revealed.  Read the story and watch how God worked in her life.  She is listed in Matthew
chapter 1 in the lineage of Jesus. Go to Hebrews chapter 11 and you will find her
portrait hanging in the "Heroes Hall of Faith." 
  What about in our lives.  We are told repeatedly to "wait on God!"  I
constantly turn to Psalm 27:14 "Wait on the Lord:  be of good courage, and He shall
strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord." (KJV)  What about Isaiah 40:31
"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up
with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk, and not
faint." (KJV)
  Wait THREE DAYS!! While we are waiting, God is working.  When we stop, God gets
started!  God has reasons for telling us to WAIT THREE DAYS!  Give Him His time to work
in our lives. There are other reasons to be considered next time.  
                                                               Parson Brown