“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan? — Jeremiah 12:5

A searching question: 'how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?' if you've stumbled in a peaceful land, what will you do when the flood comes? The swelling of jordan is a picture of death—the final enemy that every one of us must face. But for the believer, the jordan waters part. Joshua's feet touched the flood and it stopped. Christ has gone through the swelling tide ahead of us. When you walk through the waters, he will be with you. The shepherd walks with his sheep through the valley of the shadow.