Never Forget

“The men of Israel sampled their provisions but did not inquire of the Lord.” Joshua 9:14. This verse is found in chapter 9 (obviously), and takes place while the Gibeonites are deceiving Israel. I wrote a post yesterday about how Joshua was to lead the Israelites and be strong and courageous, well good news is that he was so much that the Gibeonites who were neighbors were so afraid that they played a trick and pretended to come from far away so that they wouldn’t be taken over. Now, all of this is interesting but what does it have to do with us? Well sometimes we can be like the men of Israel, sometimes we can go ahead and make decisions, make a game plan for our life without considering what God has to say. Sometimes when things are going our way we can lose sight of God, we can let pride in our hearts. I’ll admit it, when things have been going my way I have forgotten who is responsible for that. The Israelites got lost in their own success, they thought they were “all that” but they didn’t realize that their success came from God, that because of God’s love and guidance they were winning all of these battles. Sometimes we get caught in our last success, whether you hit a homerun into the parking lot, passed an exam, or got a promotion sometimes we can think we’re “all that” and there is where we can get lost and like the Israelites lose sight of God. God does amazing things through us and blesses us in amazing amounts, with His strength we can be like Joshua, and ordinary person who did the extraordinary through God’s grace and love, but we must never forget the source of our strength or lose sight of our savior.