Marek Edelman once said in an interview that in the ghetto nobody around him looked for God, and that if God orders people to be killed then there is no such God. That sentence carries a question which anyone who looks honestly at the evil around them asks sooner or later. It opens a sermon about the conquests in the book of Joshua (Joshua 10). We have to stop over the fact that a good God hands whole cities to Israel, and ask what the Bible says about guilt, the consequences of our choices, and which side we take. Listen if there is a place in your faith where God strikes you as cruel.
Why Does God Seem So Cruel?
Forward!
Life is all about change and facing new challenges, and some of them seem to be more than we can handle. To better rise to this challenge, it’s worth turning to the Book of Joshua, which tells the story of how the Israelites, though they didn’t feel prepared, had to enter their long-awaited Promised Land. It turns out that as we move forward, what matters most is who we walk with and whom we listen to.
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