I ran across a cartoon the other day. It shows OT characters. A woman is introducing a younger man to an older man, "This is Joshua. Joshua fit the battle of Jericho."

Most of us know a portion of that story or at least a portion of the song, but there is a whole lot more to Joshua than just the Walls of Jericho. In the book of Exodus we find out that God has chosen Joshua to be the second in command to Moses, the military leader of the just freed children of Israel. We alos know that Joshua was one of the 12 spies, representing the 12 tribes of Israel who were sent into the Promised Land to scope it out and determine how best to take the land which God had promised them.

When those spies returned to Moses, Numbers 13 & 14 tell us how ten of the spies returned shaking in their boots. Th…