So Joshua saved them from the Israelites, and they did not kill them. That day he made the Gibeonites woodcutters and water carriers for the assembly, to provide for the needs of the altar of the Lord...
Joshua 9:26-27 NIV
Through one man, the people are saved. Isn't that a familiar story...
But there's more - Josh could've given them worse jobs than these - could've sent then to the worst area on the edge of the Kingdom - but now every day the Gibeonites would be seeing God's people come to church, to worship God...he brought his enemy right into the very heart of what his people were all about...completely confident that God will make himself known to them...that from their mistake God would work some good.
Sometimes we keep people at bay...but we should be confident that they'll see Jesus in us if we'd just let them in...in our church, in the way we live...
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Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see - such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. Colossians 1:15-16 NLT OK so this is an English translation of a letter Paul wrote to a church 2,000 years ago, but does it feel like Paul is wrestling with words and ideas to try and capture all of who Jesus is, of who God is, of how does it work that the walking around Jesus was also there before the beginning of the beginning of everything we can see and touch and know. Not only that but Jesus was somehow the agent of everything that has been made in the physical, social, and spiritual. Jesus is at the centre of it all. Walking around Jesus. Cooking fish for breakfast Jesus. Heart aching as he looks at p
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