The Rocket Man Effect!

After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' aide: "Moses My servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them-to the Israelites. - Joshua 1:1-2

A rocket launch is truly an amazing phenomenon to me. We don't see them very often today but thank God for You Tube. What you have is tons of weight stacked vertically to the sky with thousands of gallons of fuel exploding in a matter of moments. As it leaves the atmosphere the rocket drops its take-off boosters and uses additional boosters to move the remaining payload to the next stage of the mission. The first engines have a unique purpose...to get the rocket to the next stage. Massive power-massive results!

The reading today came from the book of Joshua. Joshua was known for almost 40 years as "Joshua, servant of Moses." This was God's preparation for him. On the part of Joshua it required years of selfless service, training in the desert, and through countless tests of faith. We should think of those preparation years as booster rockets designed to move Joshua into each next stage of his development and his ultimate calling. We should similarly look at the massive amount of work, trials, heartache, pain, perseverance and experiences we shoulder in our earthly walk. These are the booster rockets of a true Rocket Man for God! It takes power. It takes dynamic experiences but some of it might also seem mundane and causal.

God allows each of us preparation times to lay a foundation upon which He builds. It does not mean useless training time. It's not all years going by like lightning...like the space left behind by booster rockets. Like those rockets progress is made and important and significant work is done. But I won't discount that some of those foundation times appear to be laborious and meaningless; much like trying to get through west Texas on your way east to some place specific. When we look at all the fuel that is expended in a rocket launch it often seems like overkill. Teleporting would be so much more efficient Lord! Yet in our life these varied experiences are what God is using to frame your life for the message He is building in you. There may be a time when He speaks through you for one amazing end result mission or maybe it will simply be the same mission just with more profound results in its final stage.

My point is that without these foundational experiences, the Jordan River can never be crossed and we cannot enter the Promised Land nor can we lead others and to be sure, if you are in Christ today, you will be leading others.

Embrace these times of both seeming inactivity and times of fiery powerful forward motion that jar you to your foundations. Embrace them as from God. They, too, are a rocket booster to your next stage of your walk with God. You are a Rocket Man/Woman!

Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus - Philippians 1:6

I remain...

InHISgrip,
~J~