God's always on our side, but the real question is...

are we?

Joshua is about to go take the promise land back from Jericho. In his past experience, it's always been about war whoops, swords, horses, and bloodshed, just like any other war. but Jericho seems impossible. They've got the thickest walls that anyone has ever seen. How could they ever penetrate that monster of a wall?

Then this dude comes up to him while he's alone, and this dude's got his sword drawn. my first thought would be, "shoot. i'm gonna die." the other would be "is he on my side or Jericho's?" Joshua asks this question to this man (which i think is kinda brave of him, and the angel says "neither."

neither....

normally, a man like that would say his or his enemies, but he says neither and proceeds to say he's a commander of the army of God....

neither...

i mean, why would he say that? it's so strange. i've never really known the meaning of it until this past week when Vickie shared from the pulpit.

the question shouldn't be whether God is on our side, but if we are on His.

God will always be on our side. He always has been. We may not think so bc of the wars, poverty, famine, and broken hearts, but y'see...it's bc we don't choose him. It's bc we as a human race are not on His side. The scary thing is is that what happens if we choose to be on His side? will we get what WE want?

my question is, does that really matter? how long will that last you? most likely just this lifetime you have here on earth, but we have a chance to have something GREAT that will last for eternity.

nothing is ever more important that our relationship with God.