Joshua 9 - The one thing that stuck me immediately was that the Israelites did not pray about the strangers and made peace with them. Joshua had made this mistake in previous chapters. Was defeated at God's hand, and begged and asked for God's mercy to be restored. He is having a hard time learning this lesson of prayer first, action second.
Now the problem with Ai was his failure to pray and seek counsel from God
before they deployed the troops to attack the city. The same problem existed
here. It was a failure to pray and inquire of God concerning the Gibeonites.
They just looked at the outward circumstances. They saw the dry, moldy bread and
the ragged clothes, and they just were deceived.
How many times do we found ourselves in ungodly situations because we failed to
seek God first. Oh, for sure when we get into these conditions, then we seek God
like everything. But if we would only seek God first, we could be spared so many
negative experiences in life. So the failure to seek
God's guidance led them into this alliance with the Gibeonites.How many bad alliances are we in because we did not seek God's counsel or even another Christian man's counsel.
Lesson: Give God a chance to show us His light, go to God first!
Yes. Human judgement is flawed and all we can see are the outside. We cannot see into another persons heart to know their true intentions. So, pray when you have a decision to make and ask god for guidance and wisdom and you will make so much better decisions with that wisdom, because he can see into a persons heart and he knows their true intentions.
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