‘A Man in Whom is the Spirit’

[385 words] What will be said of us when we die? How will our eulogy go? If there ever was a funeral that I would have liked to be present for, it would have been Joshua’s. In Numbers 27:18, the description above is given to Joshua. We find much written about him in the Old Testament, and we would be hard pressed to find anything negative said of him. He led God’s people into a partial and temporary rest in Canaan and restored them to the Lord. Joshua’s life, though, started out in a very difficult manner. As a youth, he lived through the horrible reality of slavery in Egypt. He understood hard labor; it was inflicted upon the people by the taskmasters. He was one of those that cried out to God and was heard, as we see in Genesis 3:7. Joseph was very much in touch with the…