The second lesson is that we ought to expect great days of victory in our service of God. We don't see them every day. There ought to be periods of great victory in our lives where, because God has given us a task to do and we believe that He’s going to be faithful to us in helping us accomplish that task, we really can call out for Him for powerful action and expect to see that powerful action bringing about victory in the battles we face in our own lives. I recognize that we can presume upon God at that point. We can call upon Him to do things that God has never promised to do and won't do. At the same time, we also often fail to simply seize upon the promises He has already given.

I don’t think these words are poetical. I think they refer to a real event. I don't know whether God actually stopped the sun and the moon, though He could have. I incline to the view that the impression is that this is what happened, that the day was longer, that light prevailed for a long period of time by some means that we don't know. But I confess I really don’t understand what God did. This passage is not given to us, of course, to cause us to speculate on the nature of the miracle. Rather, it’s given as Paul said when he wrote to young Timothy, as all Scripture is given, for our instruction, our rebuke, our correction, and our training in righteousness. Because that is the case, when we look at a passage like this as a whole, we ask what we can learn from it.