I love the way Peterson’s Message Bible renders the question and response: Joshua asks, “Whose side are you on ours or our enemies’?” and the response was, “Neither. I’m commander of GOD’s army. I’ve just arrived.” I launched my 2023 World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission Leader’s Missions Forecast from this passage. For my January 2024 post, I’ll repeat the introduction of that essay in the hope that it encourages you to take the time to read the rest.
Right now, amid all this talk of “poisoning the blood” and protecting “our religion,” we might remember an earlier era in American history when politics and religion were intwined against immigrants.
Mary’s story was a trial of faith. Yet she made it through and so can we. Because like Mary, we are all, in our own God-ordained way, called to bring something extraordinary into the world. .