Joshua 4:14

Joshua 4:14 On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life. As the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant stepped into the Jordan River, the river rolled back and God made a pathway for all of Israel to walk across. When the priests got to the middle of the river, they stopped and let all of the people go past them and up onto the other side of the river. Then Joshua commanded one mighty man from each of the twelve tribes to pick up a big boulder from the middle of the river bed and carry it up and out to the other side. When the men piled their rocks up, the priests were the last to come up onto the far side of the river. Then God released the water and the Jordan River began to flow once again. Joshua used to twelve stones to make an altar to the Lord on the bank of the Jordan River. What an wonderful altar of remembrance! Can you imagine years later when a little boy asked his dad what that pile of rocks meant? His dad replied, “Son, those twelve rocks came from the bottom of the river bed. I saw the men who brought them up from the dry path across the Jordan River that God Almighty made for us! Yes, son that was a great day, but we serve a great God!” And guess what? We serve the same great God too!