Heavenly Refreshment

From: Faithful Words for Old and Young: Volume 10

• 1 min. read • grade level: 7

See Josh. 5:10-15¹⁰And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho. ¹¹And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day. ¹²And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. ¹³And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? ¹⁴And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? ¹⁵And the captain of the Lord's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so. (Joshua 5:10‑15).

THE Lord enters into every detail of our wilderness journey, into the minutia of every circumstance; there is manna all about the otherwise unprovided host. This alone ought surely to be enough to make the desert blossom as the rose. But there is more than this! Do we know anything of what it is to know Christ, where He is, not merely to know Him as entering into our circumstances down here? Do we know anything now of the atmosphere of heaven? Do we know what it is to get above the trials and cares of the world, the pettiness’s that belong to us here (for they are but petty things, though the Lord in His grace enters into them) where we can feel the gales from heaven, and have our souls refreshed by them?

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