All that the LORD our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess
Fri, 28 July, 2006: Today’s Bible readings.
23 So then the LORD, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them? 24 Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the LORD our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.
Jephthah faces the Ammonites, rehearsing the past to explain that Ammonites have no claim upon upon the Israelite land.
What do we learn from this?
It is God who gives the victory. There are others who believe in their gods. They seek victory through them. In our own day, many seek victory through their own abilities. They trust in themselves, in what they can do. They have made themselves their own god. And they will have to live with the victories they can gain through their god.
But as Christians, we will take that victory which God gives us.
Where is Christ in this passage?
When we come to our salvation, we must never, ever trust in ourselves. Our trust can only be in Jesus Christ. The only salvation we ever can have is as we trust in Jesus Christ alone. For the moment we trust in what we have done, we are trusting in our own god, who can never save.
