A LIFE CHANGING CHOICE DETERMINES "Which Side of the Jordan River You Are Living On"

Imagine that you are an Israelite in Old Testament times.  Let’s say, it’s about the time when Joshua was appointed to take the place of Moses as leader of Israel (See the Bible’s Book of Joshua, Chapter 1, as well as, chapters before and after that).  Picture yourself just waking up in the morning, in a tent, and facing the start of a new day.  What is your disposition?  How are you feeling about your circumstances?  Are you ready to take on another day?  How are you feeling about yourself, about your fellow Israelites, about your national leader and tribal leaders?

Now, picture yourself going through the opening in your tent to the outside, to start your day.  You are going out for breakfast manna that is waiting or going to prepare something for yourself and others.  In making that exit from your tent, believe that you will be in a place that is determined by your disposition, your emotional and spiritual condition.  In other words,  

•  if you are of one disposition, you will be on one side of the Jordan River under the leadership of Moses, or
• if you are of another disposition, you will be on the other side of the Jordan River under the leadership of Joshua.  

Depending on your disposition, your national leader will either be Moses or Joshua.  That means, 

• you will either be in the desert, still wandering around while looking back with Mt. Zion in sight, or 
• you will be in the Promised Land with a focus on claiming your inheritance that God promised to Abraham while looking ahead with Jerusalem in sight.   

Where are you?  How are you feeling?  What is your mind set?  What side of the Jordan River are you on?

If you have the following dispositions, you may still be a wanderer in the desert:

Bitterness, disappointment, depression, distraction, fearfulness, perplexed, in ruin, sorrowing, weeping, pining, in a wild place, feeling like you’re in an enclosed place, having a familiar spirit, having lust in your heart, having a longing to go back to where you were, not aware of a hidden destroyer.  What else?  There’s surely more.  What experiences are making you feel badly, or defeated?  How are you letting those experiences affect your disposition?

If you have the following dispositions, you may have crossed the Jordan River and may have started living in the Promised Land:

You are being attacked because of who you are in God.

You are believing that God is going to cure your diseases.

You are content under any circumstance.

You are fighting to hold down your territory for you and others.

You are not offended by what others say and do.

You are persecuted for your Godly beliefs.

You are reaping in multiples of what you have rightly sown.

You are sacrificing yourself for others.

You are seeking to give more than you receive.

You are unified with other believers.

What else?  There’s surely more.  How are you working though life’s circumstances?  Are you walking victoriously though your situations regardless of how things look?

When you leave your tent today, tomorrow, the next day, and the next day, where will you be?  What side of the Jordan River will you be on?  Will you be kicking through the hot sand, or will you be walking in the green grass and having a Sabbath rest (even with all the tribulations that are around you and affecting you)?  What’s your disposition?  It’s a choice, your choice.  What have you chosen to feel like?  How have you chosen to act appropriately?  Your choice will either take you away from your destiny or towards your destiny.  What’s it going to be?  How about this, is it going to be this.....

“Press On.  No Matter What.  God’s Got Your Back.   

Trust in Him and Him alone.”   

And then you say, 

“Hey Joshua, Wait for me.”