Joshua 24:11-13 Hornets 🐝 and Undeserved Blessings!

 11After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand. 12I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow. 13So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities that you did not build, and now you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.’

“There is a sense in which every blessing is undeserved, but some are more obviously so. When Israel enjoyed vineyards and olive orchards in Canaan, it should have made them especially grateful for undeserved blessings.

i. They should also have remembered that those who planted the vineyards and orchards were removed by God’s righteous judgment, and if they disobeyed and rejected God, they might also be so judged.” (Guzik)

When I study these verses and commentary there are two things that stand out: the Lords hornets and undeserved blessings.

Was the hornet 🐝 special or the everyday hornet which we have around us today? I suspect since they were sent by their Maker the swarm was so huge it blackened the sky and blocked the sun! 

Revelation 9: 6And in those days people will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die [to escape the pain], but [will discover that] death evades them.

7The locusts resembled horses prepared and equipped for battle; and on their heads appeared to be [something like] golden crowns, and their faces resembled human faces. 8They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions. 9They had breastplates (scales) like breastplates made of iron; and the [whirring] noise of their wings was like the [thunderous] noise of countless horse-drawn chariots charging [at full speed] into battle. 10They have tails like scorpions, and stingers; and in their tails is their power to hurt people for five months. (AMP)

I can’t imagine the image that this paints!

Undeserved blessings, everything we have comes from the Lord. Here is the difference between those in Christ and the world. The people in the world, that is without Christ think they work for everything they have, ie, they earned it. The Christian believes in this verse!

Romans 11:36 NLT For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. All glory to him forever! Amen.

Dear Heavenly Father, I ask that you bless all those reading this, keep them in good health, strong in the faith. We thank you for our undeserved blessings! We pray that our family members that don’t know You will be drawn by the Holy Spirit to Jesus so that when the end comes they won’t have to experience the pain of Your wrath.

In the name of Jesus I pray, amen.

Blessings