Wednesday – History

Reading – Joshua 10-12

Highlight Verse:

“He and his people became very afraid when they heard all this because Gibeon was a large town—as large as the royal cities and larger than Ai. And the Gibeonite men were strong warriors.”
‭‭Joshua‬ ‭10‬:‭2‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Becoming allies with the Gibeonites was a very bad mistake.

Despite all the problems with that alliance, there was a silver lining.

That alliance inspired fear in their enemies.

That fear caused several of the enemies to combine and attack the Gibeonites.

Because the Israelites were honor-bound to defend the Gibeonites, they came to their defense and soundly defeated five allied kings in one campaign instead of five.

Does that justify Israel’s foolish alliance.

No.

Does it mean that there are no negative consequences for that poor decision.

No. Plenty of bad came from it.

But God can bring good out of any and every situation, even when we are to blame for the error.

Have you ever messed up but had good come out of the situation anyway?
Was the good side effect easy or hard to see?