Judges 2:20-3:4
20 The LORD's anger burned against Israel, and He declared, "Because this nation has violated My covenant that I made with their fathers and disobeyed Me, 21 I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died. 22 [I did this] to test Israel and to see whether they would keep the LORD' s way by walking in it, as their fathers had." 23 The LORD left these nations and did not drive them out immediately. He did not hand them over to Joshua.
1 These are the nations the LORD left in order to test Israel, since none of these Israelites had fought in any of the wars with Canaan. 2 This was to teach the future generations of the Israelites [how to fight in] battle, especially those who had not fought before. 3 [These nations included:] the five rulers of the Philistines (C) and all of the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the Lebanese mountains from Mount Baal-hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath. 4 The LORD left them to test Israel, to determine if they would keep the LORD's commands He had given their fathers through Moses.
*Have you ever thought that perhaps a difficulty in your life is a test from God to show your loyalty to Him? God is also able to use these tests to our future benefit as well just as He did for the Israelites. As random and unfair as life may seem, God always has a reason for allowing things to happen.
Are you passing the test?
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