God's timing isn't always favorable to the human condition - Joshua 1-5

In Joshua 3:15 we read that Joshua and the priest were to step into the Jordan river with the Ark. Once they did, the waters were to "stand in a heap" as they passed by on dry ground (like Moses' leadership at the Red Sea). I love the little line in verse 15 that reads as a parenthetical statement, "(for the Jordan overflows all ist banks all the days of harvest)." God could have picked a day that the Jordan was not flooding. There we days and places the people could walk across in shallow waters. However, God specifically choose a time frame and a place where His power would be needed to complete the task. God does the same thing for you and I today. There are many times when God could allow things to happen in our lives that DON'T demonstrate His power or have a need to show His majesty. But, God purposefully puts us into situations (or, allows our situations to unfold) where His power can be seen. God could have allowed Paul to get to Rome in a much easier method that what we read in Acts 25-28. But, had He, His miracles would not be revealed. Joseph could have reached the second chair of Egypt's royal court without the pit and the prison, but God used that method to demonstrate His power. God wanted the nation to see that Joshua was now the chosen leader by Him and He used a miracle to demonstrate it (Joshua 4:14). When the human conditions don't look favorable for us, we might want to ask, "What miracle is God waiting to perform." Hardship and hardtimes and hardplaces are simply a place God can use to perform an awe-inspiring miracle.