Joshua 9

Here we have a very interesting story that should springboard into a good amount of application form the students.

-         We would always seek guidance from God even on the decision that seem to be small or super obvious. The elders of the people did not seek the lord’s guidance when they made the call to make a peace agreement with the Gibeonites and they ended up making the wrong decision. What is very interesting is that the elders made the decision in the process of following God while not seeking is guidance.

We too can be like the elders of Israel and genuinely be trying to do the good work that God has put before us but still are not seeking his guidance is how to do that. It is not enough to find out that God has told us where to go, we also need to find out how to get there. For example, if someone is truly led to go to college and become a doctor that doesn’t mean that you stop listening to God and get to make all the decisions from now till you get your MD.

-         Another one is that there is always hope for salvation, even if you are devoted to destruction. The people of Israel were to wipe all the people who were in the land of Canaan and that is where the Gibeonites were. But these people ended up in a similar position as Rahab, they were set for destruction but because they had faith in who God is, as misguided as it may have been, that little faith saved them from destruction. Likewise, for us it only requires a moment of faith for us to be saved, no matter how sinful or bad we might have been in the past.