Joshua 10:13c So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

Sometimes God does a miraculous thing and only mentions it once. So many things are exampled over and over again in the bible so that we do not miss those important details. But what about those things He does once and doesn’t make a fuss over it? Do you glaze over it as if God doesn’t have a message in it for you?

Joshua is doing battle here and it important to Joshua to have the light to finish the battle. So he prayed that the sun should not set until the battle was won. God granted that prayerful request. What I see in it that is simple. There are not enough hours in the day to accomplish all that needs to be done. We divide the day into portions. We give ourselves just so much time to accomplish a task and then move on to the next. We often put off things until tomorrow, but what if tomorrow doesn’t come?

Lately I have had that nagging feeling that the real enemy is time. Satan is a defeated foe. Christ won on the Cross. Yet time keeps creeping along unhindered by battles or needs or circumstances. Time stops for no man. Well not since Joshua anyway.

We who believe in Christ order our lives according to God’s plan. God has shown us what is important. God has ordered our lives and seen to it that we are satisfied in it. That bodes well for us because we found the time to do the important things. I don’t even have to tell you what they are, do I?

But what of the lost? How much more time do they have to say yes to that free will offering that is Jesus Christ? Will they get another day or another hour to make Jesus the Lord of their lives?

1 Kings 3:14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.