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Do We Know?
My notes at the close of Joshua: death comes to all.
Second, choose, make up your mind, is it GOD or not. And in that, I was reminded of James 1:8. You know what it says, right?
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Then we moved to Judges.
Joshua died. Caleb remains — we shall see for how much longer.
Judges 2: 10-13. Let me copy and paste it for you here.
10 After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel. 11And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.
12 Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger, 13 for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. source
How does a generation that knows GOD produce a generation that does not know GOD?
And what happens when a generation does not know GOD?
They do evil in the sight of the LORD. They serve baals.
Why? Why, baals?
Because people worship. We are born to worship. We are going to worship. Even Atheists worship. Yep. We ALL worship something or Someone.
What/who do you worship? Do you know? How do you know?
Until Next Time, Holy hugs, Kathie
Silly People
Lessons and more lessons reading on from where we left off yesterday.
Chapter 22, verse 10 of Joshua records for us that the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar by the Jordan in the Land of Canaan. And when the other tribes heard of it, a delegation was sent to see what this imposing altar was about. It turned out well and people were helped and satisfied.
My takeaway?
Accountability. It is almost non-existent in 21st-century Christianity — here in America, at least.
If you have a person in your life who checks in with you, watches over you, is courageous enough, and loves you enough to confront you when they see you making choices, taking Biblically questionable actions — this is rare, bloody rare, I think.
So, if we don’t have this, we need to earnestly pray, beseeching ADONAI to bring a brother or sister to us who will love us this much. Or perhaps we need to beseech The LORD to bring someone to us that we can shepherd.
Then in chapter 23, Joshua is old and well along in years it reads so he summoned all Israel. He had something to say and say he did.
It’s been opined that we do not really need the Old Testament anymore because we have the New Testament. Silly people. The Old Testament is a Treasure filled with gold, silver, and precious nuggets of every kind for us to learn holy and practical ways to walk this earthly journey.
One of those nuggets is this:
11 Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.
Watch yourselves carefully that you love the LORD your GOD.
Do we?
In verses 14 through 16, Joshua reminds the people again that ALL the promises GOD made to them getting them to the Promised Land had come to be.
GOD keeps His promises for blessings or wrath. We can count on it.
