When the children of Abraham left Egypt to go to Canon, God told them through Moses in Deut.7:1, that there were seven nations living in the land. More than four hundred and fifty years before, God had promised to give that land to Abraham and to his seed. God had not forgotten. God never forgets. What ever God says, He remembers and will do. What promises He makes, He will keep. But He had spend many centuries preparing His people for that inheritance.
In the same chapter of Deuteronomy, God told His people that all seven nations would be completely driven out from that land. Then God said also; ‘Do not make any covenant with them or league. Do not take their daughters to be wives nor give your daughters to them in marriage. Break down their groves and their images.’ God spoke so clearly, and still they did not abbey fully. That was their first failure.
How often, though we seek to obey God, we do not obey Him fully. It may be that just in a few things we do not obey Him. Joshua.1:12 shows this. They said; ‘now these men are our slaves. We shall use them to draw water for us ‘. Thus the devil gained ground. Later came mistakes in marriage, and then the people of God began to worship idols also even though they came into the land, they could not enjoy the land.
Today’s calendar’s Bible verse:
“Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do.” John 14:13.
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