Transitional Time Calls for Consecration

Transitional Time Calls for Consecration

Joshua 5:1-12

1 Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the Jordan before the Israelites until we had crossed over, their hearts sank and they no longer had the courage to face the Israelites.

First thing first, consecration precedes conquest.

Consecration - the dedication of a person / object for a specific purpose or use. 

In life, we have many transitions in our life. All translations are important. 

1) Circumcision - A moment of trust - God's Trustworthiness 

Gen 17:11-12

Joshua 5:9

9 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." So the place has been called Gilgal to this day.

God asked Joshua to circumcise in the most inappropriate place, inappropriate time and inappropriate group. 

Numbers 14:4-11 

 4 And they said to each other, "We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt."

11 The LORD said to Moses, "How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them? 12 I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they."

God has delivered them from Egypt but Egypt was still inside their hearts. 

Deuteronomy 30:6 

God will Circumcise your heart so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, in order that you may live. 

2) Passover - A Moment of Thanksgiving

Joshua 5:10
10 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover. 

Exodus 12:26-27

The Lord has passover-ed their homes in Egypt. 

Recall of the great works done by God for your past so that we can be of gratitude. 

Thankfulness Comes from an experience of God. 

3) Manna - A moment of truth

11 The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain. 12 The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate of the produce of Canaan.