Observe with what confidence the man of God speaks of future blessings; and how he makes the review of past mercies, the foundation of all that are yet to come. Reader! pause over this doctrine. May the Holy Ghost be your teacher while perusing it, and you will then learn that this is the great secret of religion. The only possible method for a poor tried soul to exercise faith, under the Spirit ' s influence for what is to come, is by looking back, and, beholding what of God's faithfulness is in what is past. By faith in God's promises we look forward and depend. God hath wrought deliverance before. The same God will do it now, and for all that is to come. What though there are Canaanites yet to be driven out, (Israel might say) yet in these already destroyed, God's word is pledged for all that remain. Reader! apply this to your own case. Hath Jesus begun his grace in your heart? Hath he given you to see and feel the plague of your own heart, and a view of his preciousness! Are there yet remains of corruption still within, under which you groan? Look to him! He that is the author, is the finisher also of faith. Thou saidst (said Jacob) thou wouldst surely do me good. Genesis 32:12; Hebrews 12:2.
Related Commentaries of Joshua 23:4
Joshua 23:4-5
4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.b
5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.