Joshua 1:11-15

So Joshua ordered the officers of the people: 11 "Go through the camp and tell the people, 'Get your supplies ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you for your own.' "

12 But to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said, 13 "Remember the command that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: 'The LORD your God is giving you rest and has granted you this land.' 14 Your wives, your children and your livestock may stay in the land that Moses gave you east of the Jordan, but all your fighting men, fully armed, must cross over ahead of your brothers. You are to help your brothers 15 until the LORD gives them rest, as he has done for you, and until they too have taken possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them. After that, you may go back and occupy your own land, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you east of the Jordan toward the sunrise."

I've read this passage so many times. But today it seemed to speak something to me. And I want to share it with you all.

Do we realise, that we are not to sit down and rest till our brethren have received what God wants them to?! Have we not failed to fulfil our responisibility towards God and His people again and again? Let us ask God, and repent. Let us make a new start, determined to help our brothers and sisters...whatever it takes.

Didn't the Gadites,Reubenites and those of Mansseh's tribe know, that it could be a long time till their brethren receive their Promised Land? Did they not think, that it could cause them a lot of pain and separation from their families if they went ahead following Joshua's directions? Yes they did. Yet they said , "Whatever you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go"

How beautiful would it be, if we believers would not rest till our brethren have all that they need... I can only imagine.