God bless!

         I think we all have at one point or another looked at something that wasn't ours  and wished it was ours. I'm not saying that to desire something is bad as we all have desires but I am saying that anything that we desire that leads us to do wrong is bad, for us. There should be nothing we desire over righteousness. Is this process of controlling our desires easy? No! Let's analyze this story below, the man sees the spoil, he desires it and disobeys an order. He disregards his leaders direction, he ignores his God's desire and he takes the spoil anyway.  It gets better. He then takes what he desired and hides it under dirt. What's the point in doing that? Why risk your life and not enjoy your spoil? The reason is simple, he knew very well what he was doing was wrong! Are we hiding something that we know is wrong? Are we trying to justify something completely wrong because we want what we want? Are we ignoring God and our leaders because we feel righteous in our own actions and desires? Isn't it interesting how we can read bible stories and sit in a judgement seat towards wrong doers but we ignore our own wrong? I know we didn't want to hear this today but how do we change if conviction is never brought forth? Though all this hiding is wrong it's worse when we get so cold and numb that we take out our spoil and flaunt it because we manage to justify it in our own eyes disregarding the damage that it does to others not to mention ourselves? Let's read the bible and apply it to ourselves so we can change and start uncovering the spoils that are hidden and those that are exposed to the world. We were made to enjoy life not conceal it.

Pastor Joell

When I saw among the spoils an attractive mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath. (Joshua 7:21 AMP)