Joshua 7:8,9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joshua advanceth in his argument of wrestling with God, and pleads, as the strongest and best of all arguments, the glory and honour of his name. What wilt thou do unto thy great name? Reader! mark it down as a memorandum, that God pledgeth his faithfulness for the fulfillment of all his promises in Christ Jesus. Precious assurance! Jesus is himself the great promise of the Bible. And in him all other promises are folded up and included. We have not only his blood and righteousness, our security for the fulfillment of them: but our God and Father is engaged, in all his covenant engagements, by his word and by his oath, to the same. You and I may, therefore, plead with our God upon all occasions, as Joshua did, the glory and honour of Jehovah's name, as the most certain security for the accomplishment of all his promises in Jesus. Lord! if the enemy triumph, where is our confidence in Jesus? It matters not what becomes of us, or if our worthless names were to perish forever: but thine honour is a thousand times dearer than our lives. Oh! never let the enemy say, Where is now thy God? These are sweet and powerful pleadings before the throne: for here is found in them the work of the Holy Ghost, enabling the soul so to plead; the faithfulness of the Father, and the honour of his name; and the never-failing covenant, blood and righteousness of Jesus. See also, another beautiful instance of this kind: Exodus 32:11-14.