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Joshua chapter 4 verses 19 through 24.

The people came up out of the Jordan on the 10th day of the first month,

and they encamped at Gilgall on the east border of Jericho.

And those 12 stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgall. And he said to the people

of Israel, when your children ask their fathers in times to come, what do these stones mean?

Then you shall let your children know. Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground. For the

Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over this Jordan on dry ground. For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan

for you until you passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us

until we passed over, so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord

is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.

Oh, there's so much in this passage.

So much in this passage to reflect on, to pray according to.

But the picture that I want to focus on is this question.

When your children ask you, what did these stones mean? So they're

setting up these stones as a remembrance of when God stopped the waters of the Jordan River,

just like he had stopped the waters of the Red Sea, and he made a way for his people

to cross through. And these stones will be a remembrance, a marker of the day when God did that.

So that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, and that you may

fear the Lord your God forever.

Like tell your children what God has done so they might fear the Lord and so that all the

peoples of the earth may know that God is mighty.

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