1:7
The instruction to “Be strong and very courageous” appears again, as it will one more time in this chapter. Why such an emphasis on this? Serving as the first lieutenant and serving as the leader are very different things. Joshua needed to step up, and he needed to know that God was with him, and it was God’s plans, not Moses’ plans that were being fulfilled, and that he had a part in achieving. As well as being “strong and courageous” he needed to keep the law that Moses had given. The commands of the Law were not Moses’ commands, but God’s commands.
1:8
How was Joshua to keep the Law? By doing it, obviously, but also by keeping it close to his heart. As it says in Ps 119:11, “I have hidden your law within my heart, that I might not sin against you”. So the law was to be on his lips, i.e. he was to talk about it and speak it out, and he was to meditate on it constantly. If he did this then he would “be prosperous and successful”.
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