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STONES Reminders of God’s Faithfulness In Joshua we read that God had saved the Hebrew people by leading them through the Jordan River. They found themselves safely on the other side. The LORD told their leader Joshua to instruct the leaders of the twelve tribes to pick up a stone each and carry it back to camp. Joshua used these twelve stones to create a memorial. We read, “In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.” Joshua 4:6-7 These stones were a physical reminder of a spiritual moment. Every time their children saw them it acted like a prompt. The pile of stones created an opportunity for their family to talk together about the past and God’s faithfulness. This edition of the WAY2GO mag will look at our ‘stones’ — the physical reminders of God’s faithfulness to us, our families, our churches and our communities.
___ Annette Osborne SUNZ Children and Families Consultant
