Joshua 7:2-5 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying… In every estimate of work to be done by men, or by money, the moral element ought to be taken into account as an important factor. Napoleon's thought was that "God is on the side of the heaviest battalions." But Napoleon did not consider the relative weight of battalions by God's method of weighing them. One man's strength may be as "the strength of ten, because his heart is pure"; and where two thousand righteous men would be more than sufficient for a work of God, twenty thousand wrong-hearted men may fail. The true measure of the strength of any local Church is in the number and power of its godly men and women, not in the show of its men and women of wealth and intellect and social standing. One good teacher in a Sunday-school has more real power there than a score of unworthy ones. And it is with money as with men. The need of the Church in both the home and the foreign field to-day is not so much mere money, but better gifts. Ten dollars with a blessing will count for more in God's work than ten thousand dollars without a blessing. It is not true that one man's money is as good as another's, nor that money gained by one means is as good as money gained by another. (H. C. Trumbull.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai. |
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