In Joshua 8:1-29 we realize that nothing can cause paralysis in our lives more than failure. You know the terrible “would of, should of, could of’s” but what is wonderful to see is that the Lord tells Joshua and the rest of the nation right after the confession of sin of Achan’s as the accursed things were spread out before the LORD that “See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.” No delay, no hesitation just I’m giving you what you think you lost, what you’re certain you don’t deserve.
Saint’s listen up, failure needn’t paralyze you if you have agreed with God and dealt with the hidden things of your life by hiding them in His love and then just as we saw last week there is an immediate “Door of hope in the valley of trouble”.
The victorious Christian isn’t the one that never makes a mistake rather they are the ones that after they fail get up and obey the Lord as Paul admonished the Philippians in 3:13-14 “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” To press towards the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ one has to first be willing to “forget those things which are behind”.