<Image courtesy of bejealousofme> Christmas is coming. Now, we may not be very far into autumn, Halloween is still almost a month away, and Thanksgiving is a distant thought for those of us here in the US. But reminders are everywhere that Christmas is coming and retailers are working hard to instill a bad case of the gimmies in every consumer. It’s a disease that strikes young and old alike, when raw consumerism and selfishness reign, and though self-restraint may keep us from actually verbalizing, “Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie…” the sentiment can still be found in many. But The Gimmies aren’t something unique to the Christmas spending season or retail marketing. Somewhere deep within each of us is the desire to grab a hold of the stuff that isn’t ours but we think we deserve. In Joshua 7, Achan did exactly this. He grabbed a hold of some of the very things God said were only God’s, and, as shared in (more…)
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