Transition from promise to possession

SUMMARY: God's promises are not empty expressions, but immutable and eternal. To possess them, we must obey and keep his law. Joshua, previously known as Hosea, learned of God's promise to possess the land and became a servant and soldier of God. We too must make a transition, cross our own Jordan, and become conquerors through obedience, hearing God's voice, renewing ourselves, and talking to him. We can all be like Joshua, the conqueror, through the power of Christ.

Challenges in the Lord allow us to look forward and grow each day more in his Spirit… or give in, fold the flags of faith in Christ and cast aside his promises. Each day brings its own desire. The promises of God are not a catalog of empty and meaningless expressions. They were recorded in his Word so that you and I may revive our hope in Christ every day, they are immutable and eternal as their creator. God promises his people a complete inheritance, a spiritual land where the pasture of his grace abounds and definitively ends the wandering and disloyal pilgrimage devoid of purpose. The only condition for you to confidently undertake your travel itinerary is obedience, keeping its law, meditating on it to put it into practice and for your life to achieve true prosperity. Your prosperity depends on your relationship with God. To possess the promise is to conquer it, it is to fight it, it is to enter the battlefield where He accompanies you and blesses you if you make an effort and are brave, it is where He does not skimp on renewing the ties that perhaps one day you tended to him and the next. you forgot about the excesses and follies that life and the fallen world imposes on us.

We must make a leap to transition, to innovation, to transformation. Joshua's name was Hosea, which means "salvation." There he was as Moses' Minister in the 40-year wilderness adventures, the training ground where God tested the will and courage of many of his mighty men. There he learned of God's promise to possess, to own the land that He had as an inheritance for His people. Moses changed his name before he died and called him Joshua which means "Jehovah is salvation", as announcing that Savior who was to come to take his church to the heavenly Canaan according to the promise of eternal life.