Knowing who to trust

Then Joshua made a treaty with them (Gibeonites) and guaranteed their safety, and the leaders of the community ratified their agreement with a binding oath. Three days after making the treaty, they learned that these people actually lived nearby. Joshua: 9:15-16

Knowing who to trust and when to make a decision that concerns others is something that should be left up to God. The Israelites didn’t consult God before they trusted their own eyes and instincts and entered into an awkward alliance that they were never suppose to make. I included a photo of my family at my daughters 8th birthday. I know I can trust my family.

Dear Lord hear my prayer,
Your Grace and Love is always at work in my life. I need not fear, because you are always with me. Nothing can ever separate me from your love, according to the apostle Paul.

You have given me a desire to love you and you have given it my daughter. I ask that you give the desire to seek you to my son and more of it to my husband.

As a leader, teacher, mother, wife and friend I make decisions all the time that affect other people. From this passage I’ve learned that my eyes and instincts are not always going to be true and I can be deceived too. Help my to remember to ask you first before I rush into any decision. No matter how insignificant or small that decision may seem to me. Help guide me Lord, Jesus. For you are my rock and I want to rest on you. Amen