But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come about that those whom you let remain of them will become as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land in which you live.Somehow, statements like this never before caught my attention in the way it just did. Usually, when I read about how the Israelites were supposed to drive the people out of the land, but failed to, it's just a reminder of how they messed up, and suffered the consequences because they didn't listed to God.
This time, however, the broader implications hit me. This isn't just about obeying God, though that's certainly also true. It's about why we need to keep ourselves from sin in general. If we allow ourselves to accept sin, it weakens us. It makes us more complacent to permit other sins, or to enlarging the one we're committing. If we are to be as God has called us to be, we must allow no compromise.
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