Key Bible Verse: The Lord said to Joshua. "Get up! … You will never defeat your enemies until you remove these things" (Joshua 7:10-11,13). Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Point your spear toward Ai, for I will give you the city" (Josh. 8:18). Bonus Reading: Josh. 7:1-15; 8:1-8

The law of gravity is universal—until you get on an airplane. The Wright brothers didn't eradicate the law of gravity. They rendered it inoperative by the operation of a higher law called aerodynamics. If that higher law stops working, if an engine goes out, the plane will tumble to the ground because the first law isn't dead.

When you combine the combustion of the Holy Spirit with the speed of obedience and the airflow of holiness, you're lifted to a new plane of spiritual life because the power of the Spirit working in you transcends the law of sin and death.

Have you ever seen a sidewalk turned inside out because a little acorn fell between the cracks? An acorn can't move sidewalks. But when you set the acorn free to be what it was created to be, you've got an oak tree on your hands. The law of the oak transcends the law of the concrete.

When you accepted Jesus Christ, you received the acorn of the Spirit who wants to become the oak of your life to move aside the concrete of your problems. What the Law couldn't do, God did by sending His Son.

—Tony Evans in Returning to Your First Love

My Response: I'll ask God to set me free from sin so that I can become all He created me to be.

Thought to Apply: What God expects us to attempt, He enables us to achieve.—STEPHEN OLFORD (pastor and evangelist)

Adapted from Returning to Your First Love (Moody, 1995) by permission.

Prayer for the Week

Give me the resolve and strength, Lord, to take a definite stand for You and consistently live it out.

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