Exodus 23:30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land.
Joshua 7:2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the country.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.
God did not tell the Israelites that they were going to defeat their enemies and occupy Canaan in one day. But little by little, by and by, and in due time they would posses the promised land.
When Joshua crossed over River Jordan, the first assignment was Jericho ( Jos 6:1-27). After the fall of Jericho, he turned his attention to AI with all it’s challenges, technicalities coupled with the costly ” overconfident battalion. After AI, he dealt with the deceptive Gebeonites ( Jos 9:4). Joshua knew very well that attacking all the Philistine and the Canaanite kings at the same time would have been a costly blunder.
God is going to give us victory ” little by little “. He is going to lift us from one glory to another. We must learn to focus on the next step more than we do on the overall goal. Goals are achieved by pursuing them little by little; we get promoted “little by little”, the business grows “little by little”, the ministry grows “little by little”, the project is accomplished ” little by little ” we get to know our spouses to be ” little by little ” etc
Further readings:
Gen 1:1-31
Deu 7:12
Isa 28:13
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