Hey, this is Shelby and Scott, and we are in the book of Joshua.

Today we're talking through chapters four through six.

These are pretty significant chapters.

So let's jump right in.

What's going on in these chapters, Scott?

I see what's funny to me is like, it feels like, you know, as you're reading through

scripture, it feels like the Israelites have been about to enter the promised land for like quite

a while.

I'm feeling that, Scott.

But this is it. Like, you know, this is where they finally enter the promised land.

And so Genesis, or Genesis, Joshua, three and four,

they show them crossing the Jordan River, similar to how they crossed the Red Sea a generation

earlier. So their time in the wilderness is like officially done. And one marker of that is the fact

that the manna finally ceases. So at this point, they begin to eat and enjoy the fruit of this

good land. And I really love that God has them collect these stones from the Jordan River to set up

this monuments on the other side, because we actually see a few memorials like this in Joshua.

And, you know, we just finished Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy stressed a

whole bunch of the need to remember, remember, remember, remember God. Call to mind all that God

has done for his people. And this monument is one example of that remembrance. It does that. And

something this chapter causes me to ask myself is like, what quote-unquote memorials have I set up in my own life

to remind me of God's faithfulness? It can be it can be so hard, I think, to just sit still and

reflect. And this in turn can cause me to either just not see the ways that God is at work in my

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