Would it be okay if we engage our imaginations a little bit today? Though it’s not the standard fare of this site, how about we try it and see how it goes?
I want you to imagine that you’re an Israelite man. You and your nation have spent 40 long years wandering in the wilderness, but now at last God has told you it’s time to cross the Jordan River and enter the promised land. It sounds exciting. It sounds simple. But when you come to the Jordan you see that it is in flood. What at some times of the year is little more than a creek is now a wide and raging torrent. You wonder: What is God up to? Why would he command something that is impossible to actually do?
As you stand gazing at the river, you see the priests begin to file past. High on their shoulders is the ark of the covenant—the ark that is the place of God’s presence among his people. You watch the priests as they step into the river and as they step into the river you gasp. You gasp because the moment
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