12 Stones

The past few months I have felt like I am in a rut with my walk with God.  Yes I love him but I just haven't been in the same place that I was in.  This morning I've been sitting here at work thinking about how I got to this place. I started reading a devotional from an app on my iphone and today's message was on remembering all the things God has done for you.  I think it's so easy to get caught up in the worries about the future, working, money, and family that we forget to remember everything that God has done in our lives that has made us who we are today. 


"So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the Lord had told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to their camp, where they put them down.  Joshua set up the twelve stones that had beent in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day.  Now the priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything the Lord had commanded Joshua was done by the people, just as Moses had directed Joshua. The people hurried over,and as soon as all of them had crossed, the ark of the Lord and the priests came to the other side while the people watched.That day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they stood in awe of him all the days of his life, just as they had stood in awe of Moses.  On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho. And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan. He said to the Israelites, "In the future when your descendants ask their parents, 'What do these stones mean?' tell them, 'Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.' For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Seat when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God." - Joshua 4

I just want to encourage any one who may read this that just because you are in a dry spot it doesn't mean that you are forgotten.  Just continue to pursue God and don't forget all the things that he has done for you and where he has brought you from.