DAY 3
BIBLE READING: Joshua 2: 1-14
Here is common sense at work. Joshua needed all the information he could get about Jericho and the land, even though God had told him that the land was going to belong to him and his people.
It is the same for us today. When looking to God for guidance, don't sit round doing nothing. If a certain course of action seems to be God's will, find out all you can about it. Then look to the Lord for the next step you should take. Be open to his leading, but make sure you investigate every possibility while waiting for his further word.
Then God must have moved the heart of Joshua to send out spies because of Rahab. It seems very clear that Rahab believed in the God of Israel before the spies came to her home. Read James 2:25 and put that alongside verses 9-11 in this chapter.
God will always honour even the smallest amount of faith and will seek to cultivate it to help it grow. The story of Carnelius in Acts 10 is another illustration of this.
As soon as God starts to work, however, Satan also begins his work of hindering. Probably the king of Jericho had not noticed Rahab before. But when the men sent by Joshua arrived, he immediately reacted.
It is always the same. Satan doesn't care about a soul until God's messenger touches that life. Salesman or others can come and go, but let a servant of God go to that door or speak to that person and Satan immediately tries to snatch away the seed.
What is the answer? We need to protect that seed with prayer. God is more anxious than we are that his Word might find a place in hearts. He will be glad to hear our prayer and to answer in his own time and way.
A THOUGHT:
'Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.'
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