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Judges 1

It amazes me a lot of times when I read through the Old Testament how willing God is to hand over people groups to other people groups. When Israelites continually go in and beat up on the Canaanites, and God seems to smile and nod approvingly. What can we take from this chapter in our bibles then if all it is is a bunch of people going around killing one another and taking their lands? In the midst of all of this destruction and killing we do see a brief glimpse of grace when a man shows the Israelites how to break into the city called Luz and because of this spares the man and his family from death. But the more I read the more I don’t know if this is a case of God being happy that people are dying or Israelites and the 12 Tribes not fully doing there job, because as we get to the end of Chapter one there is a list of things and peoples that were left unconquered.

I don’t really know where I am going with this but I do know that the Israelites were called to do a job, after Joshua had died the Tribe of Judah with the help of the Tribe of Simeon, and annihilate the Cannanites. Regardless of what job it is that we are called to do, we are called to do it to the best of our abilities. We are called to live fully in Christ, and that means that in whatever it is, work or play, we are to be doing it for the Lord. It all comes back to worshipping God, that worship is more than singing on Sunday or to your local radio station on the way to work, it is about loving God with all your heart mind and soul and knowing that praising him with your actions is crucial to building a strong relationship with the God of our universe.