Sunday in Week 9 of Pentecost
Daily readings
Joshua 1:1-18 Acts 21:3-15 Mark 1:21-27Joshua begins the tale of the conquest of the Promised Land. In this passage the LORD speaks directly to Joshua and gives him instructions. Somehow I had the impression that God did not speak directly to Joshua. I don't know where I got that idea since here it is clearly written that he did. Ah well, that is why we need to read the Word of God over and over again and make sure we have good teachers who faithfully explain it to us as well.
Acts 21 has always puzzled me. If the people in verse 4 were speaking "through the spirit" and telling Paul not to go on up to Jerusalem, didn't he disobey God by going anyway? Or was this speaking through the spirit not really something God was saying? I know that God used this for good eventually, but it seems odd to me.