Well, I have lost about 13 pounds right now. Feeling good. Workout was excellent today. Shoulder and arms. I have noticed I am hitting the wall of the eating issue...feeling like I have eaten the same thing over and over again for the last 3 weeks...of which I have. So I am looking for some new menu items that I can find that will allow me to intake about 2800 calories (40% protein, 30% carb, 30% fat)...not as easy as it sounds. Oh well, still hanging in there and enjoying it! Feel so good these days.
I jumped into Joshua today and got to be reminded of just how blessed Joshua was so far. He led the Israelites thru massive battle after battle and had God provide all the strength, courage, etc. to win each battle. The entire land of Canaan was overtaken through Joshua, as God communicated to Moses it would be. The Jericho story was fun to read and visualize again.
A neat part of the book so far to me is where God commanded the Israelites not to plunder the "devoted items" when conquering the cities yet some of the Israelites still did this and grieved God to much anger. As a result, God allowed some of their lives to be taken (I think 36 to be exact) when they went up to battle the next time after the plunder. Joshua immediately knew it was something but didn't know what it was that caused it. God instructed him to ask his people who did such a thing and Joshua found the person and put them to death. Joshua realized that they must be put to death to do away with the filfth that robbed Israel of God's protection in battle.
If we could ever get back to fearing the Lord as He commanded and demonstrated so visually well in the OT, I think the world would be a much better place to live temporarily. In fact, I think that is our problem...we don't fear the Lord as we should. We have become complacent in our walk to think God is too gracious and merciful to do such a hurtful thing...when in fact, He has proven both...He can and He will given His purpose.
Let's all fear God the way He intended...otherwise, He may pull His protection from us during our most important battle and we will lose for sure.
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