The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Joshua 7:10-12, “So the LORD said to Joshua, ‘Rise up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?’
11 ‘Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. And they have even taken some of the things under the ban and have both stolen and deceived. Moreover, they have also put them among their own things.
12 ‘Therefore, the sons of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, for they have become accursed. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy from your midst the things under the ban.’”

Sin is always a destroyer. What’s more, the sinner is always dis-covered! How many throughout history have committed sins, all the while thinking themselves “undiscoverable?” Yet, they were in time discovered, and forced to confess and pay for their sin.

Joshua is not the sinner here. He has been directed to find the sinner and bring him to judgment before the LORD and before His people.

All of us could do well to hear the words: “…you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out” (Num. 32:23). The truism is simple: “You cannot do wrong and get by.”

There is, however, a provision for forgiveness. It demands admission of the sin and restitution with the one against whom the sin was committed. Since all sin is first against God, repentance and restitution against Him are always required.

Do you have some unconfessed sin in your life? Search your heart
diligently, and get right with Almighty God! He loves to forgive!

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We will never know that Christ is all we need
until He becomes all that we have.”
– Corrie ten Boom