Courage is also closely connected with obedience. Courage would
allow Joshua to obey even when he might be afraid to. (See Proverbs
28:1.) What kind of things might he have been afraid of? He had the
weight of a nation upon him and he was taking them somewhere they
had never been before to do something they had never done before.
Here are a few of the doubts and fears that may have swirled in his
mind:
How shall I feed the people?
How shall we get across the river?
How will we defeat so many people?
How can we defeat giants?
What if the people don’t listen to me?
What if I fail?
