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May 17th -- Joshua 1

Be Strong and of a Good Courage


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Two incidents happened recently that seemed irrelevant. Both combined, however, to impress a command. A young father called for some reason, bringing his two small children for a ride. The boy, sweet toddler, was into everything -- poker, tongs and cupboards. Finally, he climbed on to a window-seat, fingered my Bible, leaving it open, got down, and raised a protest about having to go home. Next day we found a robin in the garden, half stunned, balancing on quivering legs. One side of its head was terribly injured and blinded, though the other bright eye regared me with no fear. The bird ... allowed itself to be picked up, put in a basket, and brought indoors. What could be done? If healed in part and later released it would become prey to cat or hawk. But it must now be tended. In a few hours it pecked at food, flew to the window, and even managed to chirrup. What unconscious courage shone from the one bright eye as it clung to my finger! I dared not look at the other side. But the Father who knows when a sparrow falls would hear a prayer for a robin. I asked God just to bless it -- and He did. The brave little bird lay next morning with stiff legs pointing to the ceiling. I tidied the room. The Bible lay open as the toddler had left it, and there shone forth the words from Joshua 1: "Be strong, and of a good courage ..."

Catherine Morgan, Think On These Things, pages 43-44


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