Feb. 09, 2025

The continuation of our story of faith depens on one generation telling the next. Joshua told the people of Israel to pick i[ twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan River and carry them over to their encampment on the other side. They were to set them up as a memorial so they would never forget how God dried up the river for them to cross, just as He had done to the Red Sea. In future generations children would ask their fathers, "What do these stones mean?" and the fathers could tell them so that "all the people of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God." The stones served two purposes: a memorial to the people of Israel and a message to all the peoples of the world.