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WordLive - Year One

DAY 144 OF 366

Prepare: I’m sure that we have all been be taken in at some time – by an unmissable opportunity or an online offer too good to be true. We are not alone in this… God’s agenda We see a different Joshua now. Suitably chastened he is buoyant again and following God’s leading. God has promised to deliver Ai into his hands. Not that Joshua could sit back and God would hand him the city. It required him to be in partnership with God, working to God’s agenda and not his own. So Joshua used his experience and resources and planned his campaign carefully. He worked out that the main army should make its move under cover of darkness (v 3). He determined the numbers needed, the route to be taken, the strategy to be used; he planned to perfection because this time God was in the detail. God at the heart Joshua sent a decoy to draw out the enemy army, who would be misled and underestimate the attack. In short Joshua presented them with an opportunity too good to miss and they fell for it. They followed their pride, laid aside their experience and training, and left the city exposed so Joshua’s men were able to enter and take it. We need to be careful how we pursue our ambitions, ensuring that God is at the heart of all we do and that we leave no opportunity for the enemy to enter in. Respond: Ask God to help you stay focused on him and his glory and not to be drawn by decoys, which call us away from him, however attractive they might seem. http://www.wordlive.org/Session/Classic/2012-05-23

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