I want to return to a thought I had
yesterday in our reading. Today is a rather hard passage to read. Not because
something so horrible or odd takes place, but simply because we are given a
list of places camps were made and the geographical boundaries of the Promise
Land were given. It simply is not fun to read.
However, at the end of chapter thirty-three
there is a nugget that we can all hold on to. God again gives his reason for
wanting all the people of the land eradicated from it … “But if you fail to
drive out the people who live in the land, those who remain will be like
splinters in your eyes and thrones in your sides. They will harass you in the land
where you live. And I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.” Numbers
33:55-56 NLT. God wanted no temptation, no false worship, not even a hint of
Satan’s influence in their land and able to come into their lives.
God wants the same for us. What in
your life do you need to completely eradicate? Maybe a sin issues you struggle
with on the computer … even though you use it to read my blog, unplug it. Maybe
it is a person in your life … maybe you need to separate yourself from them. Maybe
it is vocabulary picked up by shows you watch on TV, stop watching them and
cancel your cable. I don’t know what it is that drags you further away from God,
but do what is necessary to eradicate it from your life. Let me word a little
differently … God ordered genocide, maybe you need to do so too with the things
that drag you away from him.
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