Transition Versus Change

Introduction

If you were to go to the beach, catch a shellfish, take it home, put it in salt water, load it on a plane, and fly to Buenos Aires or San Diego, California, or even Budapest, an interesting thing would happen. In another ocean or on the other side of the world, the shellfish will open and close on the time of the tide in its home water. You can change its location, but that shellfish will not transition. It will hold to the tide of its home. You see, there is a huge difference between change and transition. We think of them synonymously, but change is very different from transition. Change is external, circumstantial, and situational. Transition is internal. In the book of Joshua, you have a tremendous amount of change taking place:

A. geographical

B. Scriptutal

C. Generational

D. National

E. Spiritual

I. Transition needs termination (1-6)

A. leadership (allegiance)

B. waiting to activity

II. Transition needs transmission (7-8)

III. Transition needs traction (9)