Just do it

Today: Joshua 5-8

Sometimes we overcomplicate the things that are most obvious. We miss the mountains and put a microscope on the molehills. Why is that?

I think we all periodically need a kick back to the basics--like Nike's famous, "Just do it" campaign.

Faith is one of the things people may overcomplicate the most. In the New Testament, Jesus encouraged people to have faith like children. He told them that even faith as small as a mustard seed could move mountains. In today's passage, I liked Joshua's words here:

"...God says it,

you do it.

Go to it."

It almost sounds like Joshua could have managed Nike's ad campaign, right?

I thought today's chapters were interesting because they illustrated several examples of what happens when people follow and disobey God. A guy named Achan definitely heard God's instructions to leave the riches of Jericho undisturbed, but he thought he could outwit God and disobeyed, hiding gold and silver in his house. His disobedience and deception destroyed his life.

On the flip side, God's people listened to His instructions for conquering the city of Jericho. When you read the instructions at first, some of them seem kind of strange (March around a city while playing some musical instruments? On the seventh day, march seven times and yell really loud when instructed?). However, the people listened, God performed a miracle and they conquered a city.

The moral of these stories?

When God say it,

just do it.

Go to it.

Tomorrow: Joshua 9-11