Joshua 9-11 - March 25

The “No-Brainer”

9:4 So the men of Israel took some of their provisions, and did not ask for the counsel of the Lord.

 Of course, we should give these poor souls some of our provisions and make a treaty with them. Just look at them. Totally a “no-brainer”. OOPS That didn’t turn out well.

 Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

 James 4: 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” 14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”

Always include God. He probably has a better way to achieve even the “no-brainers”.

 Here is a beautiful verse in the next chapter about 1 man and his God, working in tandem.

10: 14 There was no day like that before it or after it, when the Lord listened to the voice of a man …