Seek first God

March 25, 2008

Have you ever gotten God to bless you after really seeking Him in something. I know I have. And it gets sometimes to be common that we will continue to get what we need when we seek Him. After a while of that, we might get cocky. We might think we know what the Lord wants us to do. The children of Israel though that way at least. God had told them to not to make a treaty with any of the people of the promised land, to kill them all. So one day some people came to them with a story:

Joshua 9:7-14 CEV
(7) The Israelites replied, "But maybe you really live near us. We can't make a peace treaty with you if you live nearby." The Gibeonites said, "If you make a peace treaty with us, we will be your servants." "Who are you?" Joshua asked. "Where do you come from?" They answered:
(8) (SEE 9:7)
(9) We are your servants, and we live far from here. We came because the LORD your God is so famous. We heard what the LORD did in Egypt
(10) and what he did to those two Amorite kings on the other side of the Jordan: King Og of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, and King Sihon of Heshbon.
(11) Our leaders and everyone who lives in our country told us to meet with you and tell you that all of us are your servants. They said to ask you to make a peace treaty with our people. They told us to be sure and take along enough food for our journey.
(12) See this dry, crumbly bread of ours? It was hot out of the oven when we packed the food on the day we left our homes.
(13) These cracked wineskins were new when we filled them, and our clothes and sandals are worn out because we have traveled so far.
(14) The Israelites tried some of the food, but they did not ask the LORD if he wanted them to make a treaty.

It looked like a good story. Notice however, verse 14. They did not ask the Lord if He wanted them to make a treaty. That was a big mistake.

Now do not get me wrong. I am not saying that you have to ask God what clothes to wear each day. That is taking seeking God's will to an extreme. But for almost all of the big (and some of the little) ones, it is time to get asking God what He wants. I am sure that the world would be a better place if we sought God in what we did in our lives in stead of assuming that we know.

Read through the Bible in one year in Historical order
Today
Joshua 9:1-11:23
Tomorrow
Joshua 12:1-15:63
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