DRIVE, DESTROY AND DEMOLISH

Today's reading: Numbers 33-36

"...When you cross the Jordan River into the land of Canaan, you must drive out all the people living there. You must destroy all their carved and molten images and demolish all their pagan shrines." Numbers 33:51-52 NLT

A promised land. 

A constant presence on the journey.

A miraculous provision for the forty long years.

A hope of an established and numerous people.

And God asks this of them--drive out the current residents, destroy all the little gods lying around the land and demolish the ungodly places of worship.

He was asking them to put some sweat equity into setting themselves up for success.

An investment in their faith.

A participation fee, if you would like to think of it that way.

All because God wanted the best for His people and knew that only wholehearted worship of Him would accomplish that.

It wasn't too much to ask of them--and it isn't too much to ask of us.