DRIVE
Today's reading: Joshua 13-15

"So I'm asking you to give me the hill country that the Lord promised me. You will remember that as scouts we found the Anakites living there in great, walled cities. But if the Lord is with me, I will drive them out of the land, just as the Lord said." Joshua 14:12 NLT

Drive-to remove former occupants by possessing in their place; pressure to act.

In my own life I have a few plots of ground where Satan has taken up residency.

He has pitched his shabby tent.

He has squatted on property that is not his.

He has attempted to scratch my name off a few of my personal things and write his name over them.

To drive him out would require that I give him notice--that I state soundly and surely that I know what he is doing is wrong and what he has is mine.

To drive him out would require that I give him less authority than I've previously given him--that I begin to claim what is mine, that I begin to believe in Who I have been empowered by.

To drive him out would require that I change things up--that I stop banking on his lies, that I discontinue caving in to his threats, that I realize what value is in all God has given me!

As a matter of fact, I think I'll take Satan for a drive. I'll grab him by his scruffy collar, toss him in the trunk of the car, find the farthest, most deserted gravel road I can find and dump his sorry hide off there. While he attempts to make it back, I'll clean house. I'll remove all traces of him from my stuff and reclaim it as my own! I'll scrub it clean from his infestation. I'll ask God to help me wash away all traces of him from my God-given things.

Yes, I'll drive my enemy out--to the boon docks, so far out he cannot find his way back!