- When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she got off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. Joshua 15:18-19 – What we see here is a father who has already given to his daughter, but willingly offers more to her when she asked. As generous as this is, your heavenly Father far exceeds this example of generosity. God not only wants to give you eternal life, but life at its fullest while still you’re alive. Don’t let the discouragements in life shade your view on God’s generosity. While His generosity may not always come in ways we expect, it comes in the perfect ways we need it. Sometimes those perfect ways will come through the not so perfect times. Just know you have such a loving, giving Father in your God. He wants nothing more than your life to be full, but that filling may come in times that are draining. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac
- Joshua 15 Daily DEVO The allotment for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south. Joshua 15:1 – This whole chapter is detailing the range of land that Judah received as their own. We read about all these cities we have never heard of and landmarks that don’t really mean too much to us to our daily lives. So what value is reading all this? We see that the promise God made to them long ago wasn’t just some fuzzy, non-realistic, non-tangible thing. It became something that had life, had borders, had dimensions. It became a reality that they actually got to step into. So is it with the promises God has made to you. They aren’t just some fuzzy, feel good words that will never truly be something you step into. They are words that we can bank our life on coming true and have confidence that we will step into someday what He has promised us. Have faith that if Joshua got to step into what God promised Him you will too. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1179
- Joshua 15 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day. Joshua 15:63 – We’ll see more of this in Joshua, and even in Judges 1, where the people of God “couldn’t” drive out the people in the land. We’ll see reasons given like because some had iron chariots, or they were just too strong, but more than likely the real reason was there wasn’t a full dependence on what God could do. If God could do all the things He had done up to that point, I believe He could take care of an iron chariot. We too are going to face our own “iron chariots.” Things too big for us to handle yet things God is telling us to remove from our life. On the surface the command seems impossible and unloving. Clearly this thing is too much for us to handle, but we’re commanded to handle it. Why would God give such a command? Because He longs for us to open our eyes to the truth that with Him all things are possible. Yes we are called to handle this, but His call is to handle it with him. To let God bring His power and might into the situation and handle the things that we can’t. Never is God going to command us to do something that He isn’t planning on helping with however He we need it. Today then what’s an “iron chariot” in your story? What is something that God has directed you to get rid of but it has been just too hard for you on your own to get rid of? Whatever that is, that is what God is desiring you to come to Him with for help. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2474
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