Joshua 4

And the children of Israel did so, just as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the midst of the Jordan, as the Lord had spoken to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. v.8

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Ebenezer.  A lot of people know that word from a song or know it as the name of Scrooge in the play A Christmas Carol, but do you know what the word means?   Well this chapter helps us put a visual to what it means to “raise my ebenezer.”  Joshua had the Israelites take twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan River they just crossed and set it up on the shore as a remembrance and representation of the miracle God just did for them.  Now these weren't just small rocks they picked up but huge stones that they had to take up on his shoulder to carry (v.5).  Raising an ebenezer is a symbol of God’s goodness and miracle He did in their lives that every time they saw these twelves stones on the bank of the Jordan they would remember.  

At the camp I work at we have The Stone Pile and it’s a place for a new believer to place a stone on as their ebenezer where they accepted Christ as their Savior.  What is your ebenezer (or multiple ones) to remember God’s goodness and work in your life?