I'm changing course with my daily devotions so this one comes from reading 1 Chronicles 16:37 - 18:17
God I see that you show up where there is righteousness. You gave David so many victories. You brought the story of Joshua and Achan to my mind. Joshua conquered great cities when God was with them. Once unrighteousness entered Israel by Achan stealing, you COULD (not would) not be with Israel when they fought the small town of Ai. A symptom of tolerating unrighteousness is that I’m getting beat by the little things.
I love a story about a guy who took his 5 year old daughter to feed the ducks at the pond. While they were feeding the ducks, a goose came over and started honking angrily at his daughter. Then the goose runs at the little girl. Protectively the father picks up his daughter and starts running from the goose. The father is 6'3 and 220 lbs. After 15 seconds, a thought enters his mind "Wait a minute, I'm running from a 20 pound goose." He turns around and yells "Hey, stop chasing me or I'm going to punt you." This story always challenges me to see if I'm running from any geese. Any way, back to being spiritual :)
Joshua’s response is extreme but clarifies what I need to do with the unrighteousness that I have tolerated. Joshua casts lots to find out who sinned and put Achan and his whole family to death. My prayer is that I will put to death all the ways that unrighteousness is trying to take over, so that I will have victories in sharing God’s love with others.
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