Struggling Well With Life

Been reading in Joshua. Jericho came down with trumpets and shouts, and the plunder was to be gathered for the Lord’s treasury. After seeing the miracle and power of God, a man named Achan could not resist a robe and some metal, so he took and hid these coveted possessions in the floor of his tent. God’s people send a smaller army to defeat a weaker foe, and find themselves being chased out, and thirty six lives are lost, not just lost, but taken, killed, dead. Sin was in their camp. Tribe by tribe, clan by clan, family by family, person by person, and Achan is revealed as the culprit. He and his family and all their belongings are destroyed, and burned up. We often do not think of the private worlds we live, the secret sins that are left to linger from the view of others, have the effect they do - but they do. They take a piece out of us. our worlds, and our communities. May God find us surrendering these areas, exposing them in the light of His grace, destroying the power of secrecy, and the grip of sin itself.