The story of the Abrahamic covenant is your family story.

Carrie Mulestein says, we don't often think of it in that manner, but our grandfather

Abraham grew up in a turbulent time where his own father was steeped in idolatry.

He saw his immediate family involved in horrible practices, including human sacrifice, but

he knew there was a better way.

Records had come down from his forefathers and foremothers from Adam and Eve, Seth and

Enic.

An Abraham reached for the heavens, hoping to join his ancestors in the covenant.

One, one starry night, God came to him, putting his hand over him, opening his eyes, and

pouring out the power and blessings of the covenant upon him, welcoming Abraham and Sarah

in the community of God and those who were bound to him.

They had sought God, and now they had found him.

These are the covenants offered to you.

Today, as we study Joshua, we come to a new phase of the development.

As God seeks out those who will be his covenant children, God has taken the children of Israel

out of bondage and borne them on eagle's wings.

They have had 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, and they are now ready to enter

the promised land.

The book of Joshua is a sequel to the Torah, much like Acts is a sequel to the Gospels.

So with this book, we enter a new phase.

Hello, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor, and this is Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me

Podcast, where today we study Joshua chapters 1 through 8 and 23 and 24, and the challenge

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