Get Up!

The LORD said to Joshua, "Get up!"

~ Joshua 7:10

"Get up! Consecrate the people...."

~ Joshua 7:13

To humble himself for his lack of power was not the only thing to be done: it was time to act.

Miserable flesh! What disorder does it not introduce into the things of God! Always outside the current of His thoughts, if not in open hostility to Him. May we join with the apostle in saying: "We, who have no confidence in the flesh." Joshua had to act; the accursed thing had to be put away from amongst them.

He [Joshua] was not, for the moment at least, in the current of God's thoughts, and God makes him feel it. His thoughts were out of tune. When the accursed thing enters into the testimony of God, what we have to do is to sanctify ourselves, and to put away the evil from our midst. It is not a question here of power, but of holiness and of obedience. God said to Joshua: "Up, sanctify the people."

To sanctify oneself is to separate oneself from all evil to God. It is impossible without holiness to have God with us.

~ H. L. Rossier, Meditations on the Book of Joshua