This verse should stop us in our tracks. God is saying: Everything you have, I gave you. Those cities you’re living in? You didn’t build them. Those vineyards producing fruit for your table? You didn’t plant them. That land you’re farming? You...
King Balak had a problem. He watched God’s people advancing, saw the victories God was giving them, and knew he couldn’t defeat them militarily. So he tried a different tactic: spiritual warfare. He hired Balaam, a prophet, to curse Israel. If he...
Four hundred years. That’s how long Israel was enslaved in Egypt. Generation after generation born into slavery, living in slavery, dying in slavery. Can you imagine the despair? Can you imagine wondering if God had forgotten His promises, if He even remembered...
Before there was a chosen people, before there was a covenant, before there was a nation called Israel, there was a pagan family in a pagan city serving pagan gods. Abraham’s father Terah was an idol worshiper. There was nothing special about this family,...
Joshua’s final charge isn’t about behavior. It’s about the heart. Be careful to love the Lord your God. Everything else in this chapter flows from this one command. Careful obedience flows from love. Resistance to compromise flows from love....
