DAILY?READINGS: 1 Samuel 17:1-31; Isaiah 56:9 to 57:21; Romans 3
When I saw… then I coveted… [I] took… [I] hid. Joshua 7:21
If Achan’s life was a parable, it would read something like this: he was tempted and drawn away by his own lust; his lust conceived and brought forth sin; by the time his sin was finished, he and his family were dead. What a miserable indictment! Just as the apostle James described (James 1:14, 15). No one forced Achan to look or lust; no one one made him carry or conceal. Yet he did and it ended in disaster. There are severe repercussions when it comes to dabbling in sin—both immediate and eternal. Don’t let its deadly process begin. —Norman Craig Funston
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, Like the wideness of the sea;
There’s a kindness in His justice, which is more than liberty.—Frederick W. Faber