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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Joshua 6:15-27
To the inhabitants of Jericho how ridiculous and ineffective the marching round their walls by these trumpet-blowers must have seemed! Had a siege ever been carried out like this? There was plenty of mockery of course! But "God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty" (1 Corinthians 1:27). Aside from the impressive visible weapons which man uses, faith operates in its own invisible way. In keeping with the Lord’s promise, if our faith is like a grain of mustard seed, God will remove appalling obstacles from our path (Matthew 17:20). We also know that "the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds" (2 Corinthians 10:4). Let us make use of the invincible weapon of prayer. If there are obstacles like Jericho on the road we tread, let us learn, as Israel did, to circle them with the Lord (the ark) lifting our voices to God. Then, when the time He has chosen comes, we shall see the walls fall down as those of Jericho did on the seventh day.
Israel received a warning which everyone could understand: the city was cursed. Only Rahab was spared with her family as a result of her faith.
