Performance Pressure
"Yet there shall be a space between you and it [ark of the covenant of the Lord], about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before.” (Joshua 3:4 NKJV) No matter the potentials in every human engagement, the relevance of the occupation is a function of the level of the subject's present performance. And unless anyone can imagine the experience of 40 years in the wilderness and the long waiting on the potentials of prosperity in the Promised Land, it would be difficult to capture the vulnerability to performance pressure on the Israelites, which tend to mismanage the importance of the presence of the Lord with the challenge of Jordan crossover. When the Lord leads the way from financial incapacity and other social maladies to our prosperity, He would also like to keep the timing of our steps.