Thoughts for another day
September 14, 2010
Today's verse: Joshua 7:10. And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
Our work is not fulfilled when we have done something wrong before the Lord. Now of course this is pertinent only to those who are devoted to the Lord and lean on Him for everything. We learn of this principle in the book of Daniel. The wrong we do serves as fodder for the accuser to use against us. So you, if you are close to God, will discover that your wrong will work against you and though you work hard or do everything possible, the trouble never ceases and only multiplies.
Wasn’t this what the Israelites did in the narrative shortly before the act of Joshua, who fell prostrate before the Lord? God’s answer was immediate. He simply asked him why he lay prostrate and that the cause for the malady was simply their sin. Their sin was that they didn’t obey God. In fact it was not everyone who sinned, except one, but that was construed as the sin of the entire nation and that is why they suffered defeat, where they should have seen success.
Don’t you see the same thing happening with you many times? And isn’t it because of your sin? You know, I too have realised that I have not been seeing success for a long time because I am harboring sin and that I need to get out of it so that the elusive success will be mine. The same may be the case with you and the sooner we get out of it, the better it is for God will then reach out to us and give us the success we can surely get from Him.
September 14, 2010
Today's verse: Joshua 7:10. And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
Our work is not fulfilled when we have done something wrong before the Lord. Now of course this is pertinent only to those who are devoted to the Lord and lean on Him for everything. We learn of this principle in the book of Daniel. The wrong we do serves as fodder for the accuser to use against us. So you, if you are close to God, will discover that your wrong will work against you and though you work hard or do everything possible, the trouble never ceases and only multiplies.
Wasn’t this what the Israelites did in the narrative shortly before the act of Joshua, who fell prostrate before the Lord? God’s answer was immediate. He simply asked him why he lay prostrate and that the cause for the malady was simply their sin. Their sin was that they didn’t obey God. In fact it was not everyone who sinned, except one, but that was construed as the sin of the entire nation and that is why they suffered defeat, where they should have seen success.
Don’t you see the same thing happening with you many times? And isn’t it because of your sin? You know, I too have realised that I have not been seeing success for a long time because I am harboring sin and that I need to get out of it so that the elusive success will be mine. The same may be the case with you and the sooner we get out of it, the better it is for God will then reach out to us and give us the success we can surely get from Him.
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