#Joshua a parable for today summary install#

God said, вЂњYou fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you.вЂќ (12:20).

But he missed out on the spiritual, the most important part of life.

With plenty of stuff stored up for his retirement he says he can take life easy eat, drink and be merry. Jesus shared a parable about a rich man ( Luke 12:18-20) who builds bigger barns to store his extra grain and goods.

If we care so much about the physical and the material, we ought to be equally concern about the spiritual.

Do we pay attention to the safeguards of our soul? What am I talking about? Our relationship with God.

This is fine and good.Д«ut what about our souls? What about our spiritual well-being? Do we guard it with the same diligence and fervency?

We take extra efforts and pay extra money to make sure our physical lives and possessions are protected.

We buy home insurance, fire insurance and travel insurance.

We protect our possessions with locks and chains.

We guard our online sites with security tokens, passwords and PINs.

#Joshua a parable for today summary install#

We use double locks on our doors and install hidden cameras. We have home alarms, fire alarms, car alarms.

We uses all kinds of gadgets today to protect ourselves and our stuff. We are very concern with self-preservation. He spoke what is most important for the people вЂ“ the safeguards for their relationship with God. Last two chapters and last words of Joshua. WeвЂ™ve come to the end of the book of Joshua.