Joshua 1:8

Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

Joshua 1:8

So here I am in the middle of a moral dilemma. I am just about the last junior without summer plans. I already applied for housing on campus but have nothing to do yet. my mom is breathing down my neck, wanting me to come back home. i love my mom so much.

I really really need a job.

Acccording to Joshua...if i meditate on God's word, i will be prosperous and successful. That's honestly what I want. HOwever, i can see this passage being twisted by greedy hearts to support a prosperity gospel. In what way will I become prosperous? In what will I find success? Jesus came down to make God's will for us crystal clear--and it involves more than worldly success and prosperity, it involves more than envy and awe from one's neighbors, in fact, it involves something wholly different--pain and suffering. We are to drink out of the same cup Jesus did--the one that made him weep in gesthemane. JESUS. PLease. I know that if I meditate on your word, i will be connected with you, my heart will beat in the same rhythem as yours, and I will do good. Please speak your beautiful words to me continuously.

Be with me in my weakness. Forgive me Lord.