When actors and actresses make a movie, it’s the director who sees the
“big picture” and the overall direction. Actress Marion Cotillard admits she
didn’t understand everything the director was doing in one of her recent films.
She said, “I found it very interesting to allow myself to be lost, because I
knew that I had this amazing guide. . . . You abandon yourself for a story and
a director that will make it all work.”
I think Joshua could have said something similar about the director of
his life. In today’s Scripture passage, the newly commissioned leader of Israel
is standing at the threshold of the Promised Land. More than 2 million
Israelites are looking to him to lead them. How would he do it? God didn’t give
him a detailed script, but He gave him the assurance that He would go with him.
God said, “I will be with you. I will not leave you” (Josh. 1:5). He
commanded Joshua to study and practice everything written in His Word (vv.7-8),
and He promised to be with Joshua wherever he went. Joshua responded with
complete devotion and surrender to his amazing Guide, and “not a word failed of
any good thing which the Lord had spoken” (21:45).
We too can abandon ourselves to our Director and rest in His
faithfulness.
Faith never knows where it is being led; it knows and loves the One who is leading. Oswald Chambers (RBC)
