-- Friday, 7/2/10 -- HE'S NOT PLAYING FAVORITES -- Judges 1:17

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HE'S NOT PLAYING FAVORITES -- Judges 1:17 NIV

Then the men of Judah went with the Simeonites their brothers and attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and they totally destroyed the city. Therefore it was called Hormah. (Hormah means “destruction”.)

The fact that God told Israel to destroy the Canaanites and drive them out of the land seems cruel and harsh doesn't it? It sounds like God was playing favorites, telling Israel to go in and take someone's property away from them and either kill them or drive them off into the desert.

But look at what God did to Israel, both before and after their conquest of Canaan. They had spent 400 years in slavery in Egypt. They had been forced to follow the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night all over the wilderness for 40 years, eating manna until they probably thought they would choke on it. Later, they would be driven out of Canaan and scattered all over the earth - each time because of their lack of faith, their lack of faithfulness, their stubbornness, their turning to evil ways and to other gods.

God doesn't play favorites... with anyone. Each person who lives on this earth - no matter who you are, what gender you are, what color you are, where you live, what you own or don't own, how educated or uneducated you are, how rich or poor you are, what language you speak, how intelligent you are, what church you attend - you have exactly the same standing before God. Each person stands subject to God's judgment, His discipline, and His punishment. But each person also has available all of God's love, all of His faithfulness, all of His forgiveness, and all of His mercy, all of His grace and blessings. When that person is adopted into God’s family through faith in Jesus Christ, that person becomes a son or daughter of the Father, with all the rights and blessings granted to any beloved child.

"You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:26-28 NIV

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