Man, am I ever in the middle?

I am in the middle.

Anybody in the middle of something big?

There's just nothing like the middle.

It's not like the beginning.

It's not like the end.

It means that you're still in the thick of something big.

And you might say to me, well, Beth, we're always in something.

No, you know the middle when you're in it.

There's no, I must be in the middle of something.

No, no, that's not what I'm talking about.

No, I'm talking about, you know, like, I'm in the middle.

Like, you'd be able to look around you and go, oh, no, I'm in the middle.

You know. Joshua chapter 4. I'm going to read verses 1 through 18. Let me give you a little bit of background.

For 40 solid years, the children of Israel have been in the desert, in the wilderness,

having been set free out of the wonders and mighty works of God from their oppression and slavery in Egypt

to go to the land that God had promised to their forefather Abraham way back in Genesis

Chapter 12, and this would be the generation that would get to go in and take the promised land.

Only when they sent in the 12 spies into the land just to come back with a report over the fruit that they found in the land,

when the spies came back, 10 of them said, we are like grasshoppers next to them.

We cannot do it.

Two of them, Joshua and Caleb, said, we can very well do it. God has

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