Day 127..."Can you imagine filling Moses' shoes? Got Talent?

Joshua does succeed Moses and receives instructions from the Lord. The Lord challenges Joshua to be strong and courageous several times..."Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Can you imagine filling Moses' shoes? Perhaps this is the reason the Lord challenges Joshua's courage. God does use all kind of people for His purposes. An unlikely person to protect Israel's spies was Rahab the prostitute. This is a lesson...God loves everyone and can use anyone. Psalm 127 sounds like Jesus' Words in the Sermon on the Mount..."Unless the Lord builds the house,those who build it labor in vain." Is this not similar to the "Wise and Foolish Builders" and the different outcomes based on hearing God's Word? We can expect this teaching to be true in the Church and in our personal lives. Luke's Gospel contains the story of Zaccheus. In this adorable account of the "wee man in the tree" to see Jesus, we may miss his dramatic conversion. He came out of the tree offering half of what he had to the poor. Now that is a conversion of the pocket book as well! The parable of talents is a glaring account of use or lose your talent! In God's arithmatic, we mulitply talents used and diminish the unused. Got talent?
Use or lose!