The Hard Road Back

When Joshua and the Israelites suffered defeat at Ai they could have given up. God had promised victory and now they were defeated. Had God given up on them? Or they could have thought that they need to go back to the plan God had given them for Jericho. We can become presumptuous and think that God has to work if we follow a set of rules. God works through His people when they listen to Him. God had a plan for the taking of Ai but it was different than the plan for taking Jericho. Don't miss the plan God gave to Joshua. The plan worked because they had been defeated. When they confessed their sin and dealt with the sin then God can use even our failures for His glory. The only reason why this battle planned worked is because they had failed before.