Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15 and the title of today's post is,

We are not finished.

In the early portion of Joshua's campaign to take the promised land, he made two critical mistakes. The first occurred in Joshua

7 when Israel lost the battle at AI. Interesting name of a little town, A.I. Spelled A.I. A.

A small insignificant town. This was the battle immediately following the great victory at

Jericho. The defeat occurred because a man named Aiken had violated the Lord's instructions

to put all the spoils of Jericho into the national treasury.

The spoils were the tithe of the coming conquest.

It would be used to support God's future plans for Israel.

Aiken stole some of this provision for himself.

This sin had not yet been revealed, however, when Israel fought this battle at AI,

and they were soundly defeated because of their disobedience.

When Joshua complained to the Lord regarding this humiliating defeat, yep, he did so.

Yahweh was quick to enlighten him as to why it occurred.

Obviously, the Lord would have been willing to alert Joshua to Aiken's sin before Israel went into this battle and suffered defeat,

had he simply taken the time to ask for God's plan and strategy. Why didn't Joshua ask for this?

Sadly, it was due to self-confidence, pride.

Joshua's recon team had told him only a small group was needed to fight AI, for, quote, they are but few. Joshua 7.3. Think about it.

This thinking was only relevant if Israel believed it was their strength and ability giving them victory.

However, if it were God's strength and power that produced victory at Jericho,

he would also be needed at AI and in all future battles.

We need God's help for the small battles just as much as for the big ones.

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