Devotionals - Daily Journey - April 13

April 13

Joshua 7, John 13:1-20

Thought from Today’s Old Testament Passage: Joshua 7

This chapter opens with a significant and ominous “But.” So far we have had the record of remarkable progress—but! We now see the triumphant people defeated and flying and the reason is declared. It was the sin of a man, but it was also the sin of the nation. Israel had now become a na­tion in very deed, and therefore no one person could act alone. Individualism is a far more tremendous responsi­bility when it has ceased to be mere individualism. The sin of the one be­came the sin of the community, and all the hosts of God were defeated and His enterprises checked because one man had disobeyed.

The story of Achan's sin as he told it is full of warning. Mark carefully its progress; "I saw," 'I coveted," "I took." The confession he made was com­plete, but it was worthless. The reason of its worthlessness lay in the fact that it was never made until there was no escape. Gradually the walls closed around him until not on his own con­fession, but by the appointed method of divine detection, he was manifested as guilty. (G. Campbell Morgan, An Exposition of the Whole Bible (Westwood, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1959), pp. 94-95)

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