You Should Win

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us… – Rom 8:31

Josh 7:1-7 narrates how the Israelites were soundly routed by the inhabitants of the Canaanite town of Ai. We know the story, they lost 36 of the three thousand soldiers sent into the Land, and they all returned home devastated and miserable about the defeat.

It’s quite interesting that the Israelites didn’t attribute their loss to poor logistics, their probable inferior skills or even the fact that they sent three thousand men to fight a town of twelve thousand! None of that was considered; they lost and all they could think was, “This was not supposed to happen”.

Evidently, the Israelites had more faith in the Old covenant than we in the New Testament have in ours. Because when we experience failure and defeat in our lives today we usually take it as a natural consequence of things. “Life happens”, we often respond.

But to the Israelites, God, not life, was what was supposed to happen. Whenever they were in a battle, God fights for them, period. No questions asked. It didn’t matter the size and the pedigree of the opposing army, victory was assured. Sometimes, the LORD doesn’t even hide His gross partiality and favouritism to them; He’d send in hail to kill more enemies than the Israelites did, He’d make the Sun stand still to give them an advantage, He’d even reveal the military strategies of the enemy nation, (Josh 10:11-14; Jdg 5:20; 2Ki 6:12, etc.).

Beloved, God doesn’t love the Israelites more than He loves you; as a matter of fact, whatever affection He had for them under the Old Covenant pales into insignificance compared to the love He has for you whom He has accepted in His Beloved Son (Eph 1:6).

So live with an expectation of victory every day of your life; God expects no less from you.

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN