Joshua 1:5 "No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. (As Joshua faces completely unchartered territory, as he prepares to lead God's people to enter the Promised Land, the Lord promises Joshua that no one will be able to stand against him because the Lord will give Joshua and His people victory over their foes. Just as He promised Joshua, the Lord has promised to go before us into the Promised Land of the life He has for us, and He has also promised us victory over the enemy that we will face there. When what lies before us seems insurmountable, He says that nothing will be able to withstand our forward progress because He gives us victory.) As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; (The Lord commissioned Moses to fulfill His purposes, communicated with him, built relationship with him, led him, guided him, directed him, strengthened him, sustained him, empowered him, confirmed him, protected him, taught him, prospered him, assured him of success, and gave him victory over his enemies. In these same ways, just as the Lord has declared that He will be with Joshua just as He was with Moses, He has also called us to step out into His purposes and has commissioned us to fulfill all that to which He has called us. And He promises us He will be with us in the same way He was with Moses and Joshua.) I will never leave you nor forsake you."
(The meaning in the Hebrew in the phrase never leave you is that the Lord Himself declares and vows that He will not fail us or be feeble or weak for us or be slack toward us.
The deeper meaning behind the phrase forsake you is that He vows He will not loosen Himself from us or neglect us, that He will not abandon, desert, or leave us behind.
As the Lord was faithful to Moses and Joshua, so He will be with us today.)
