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The first thing that Joshua does after Israel is defeated by AI is to humble himself before God in and mourn.

Still, it is not long before God tells him that his mourning, that is his grief, is enough.

God does not delight in the grief of his saints merely for grief's sake.

Rather, godly grief is granted by God as a gift and as a means to a glorious and good end.

I could not help but think as working through the text this week

and preparing for the Lord's Day and preaching God's word

of a correlation between verse 10 and 11 of our text

and 2 Corinthians chapter 7 verses 9, 10, and 11, which says this,

as it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting.

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation

without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. For see what earnestness this godly grief

has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear,

what longing, what zeal, what punishment. If you're familiar with that particular text in

2 Corinthians, it is very likely that the Apostle Paul, who is the human author inspired by the

Holy Spirit of God, is referring to what he previously

wrote in his first letter to the Corinthians regarding a particular man who was caught in sin.

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