So Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the sons of Israel, one man from each tribe; and Joshua said to them, “Cross again to the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel. Let this be a sign among you, so that when your children ask later, saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ then you shall say to them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.’ So these stones shall become a memorial to the sons of Israel forever.”
The Israelites marked the crossing of the Jordan River by setting up 12 stones as a reminder to their children of how God had acted greatly on their behalf. God does great things in all of our lives that we never want to forget.
The doctors gave Steve four to six months to live. He is now in his ninth month since his diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma. We had family pictures taken on October 4. These pictures will be a reminder, a “stone”, to our grandkids that we serve a great and gracious God who does more than we ask or imagine. God numbers our days, not doctors. I can point to these pictures in the future and talk with them about how God extended Paw Paw’s days and the many ways we saw His grace during that time.
This blog is another “stone” that our grandkids can read in the future and marvel at God’s goodness to us. Psalm 145:1-4 says:
I will extol You, my God, O King,
And I will bless Your name forever and ever.
Every day I will bless You,
And I will praise Your name forever and ever.
Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised,
And His greatness is unsearchable.
One generation shall praise Your works to another,
And shall declare Your mighty acts.
What a privilege to sing God’s praises and
declare His mighty acts to our grandkids!
(Will post our family pictures when we get them in a couple of weeks :)
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