He still makes time stand still

We have all probably experienced moments where it seemed time stood still. It is with these moments that you hear the expression, "It felt like hours but it was only three minutes." While it may have felt like it lasted forever, it was just a brief amount of time.

There are those happier moments, too, where it feels as if everything is moving in slow motion. We sense everything and everyone around us. We feel as if we are watching a dream. Even though we feel as if time has stood still, it really didn't. While it felt like an eternity, and it was only a small amount of time, the fact is that time still progressed, it did not stop. Do you think time ever stops? It did...

Today's word is Joshua 10:13b, NIV, which reads, "...The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day."

Joshua and the Israelites were in the midst of a battle and daylight was running out. Joshua called unto the LORD and asked Him to make time stand still; they needed to complete the task at hand, they needed to finish the job, they needed to complete the calling that GOD had given them. When Joshua asked the LORD to stop the sun from setting, the sun stayed in the sky and the Israelites completed the job.

The next verse in this passage tells us that there was never a day like this before and there hasn't been one since. Does that mean that GOD has changed? Absolutely not. It just means there hasn't been a need for a repeat of that day. Our GOD is still the same yesterday, today, and forever. It is in those precious moments that we cherish forever that we realize that He still makes time stand still.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T