Do you remember, as a kid, feeling like you couldn’t wait to be an adult? The promise of adulthood was being able to live your life any way you wanted. Then you became an adult and discovered what you imagined wasn’t reality. You discovered that life doesn’t really get easier with age. Well, what’s true physically is also true spiritually. It doesn’t get easier with age.
Joshua & Co. are learning this lesson 1st hand. Jericho put up virtually no resistance. All they had to do was march for 7 days, then go in and take a defenseless city. They had to fight harder for Ai, but God gave them the battle plan and directed Israel in the field. Today’s text takes us to what I call the Rumble at Gibeon. Joshua is about to go up against 5 kings who have banded together against him. They are ganging up on Israel now. Will she prevail?