Bring an honest response
Application should follow understanding. Return to a specific part of the reading and consider an appropriate response: gratitude, lament, confession, a question, or a practical act of love. You do not need to force every difficult passage into an immediate instruction for your circumstances.
A land and a calling
Joshua recounts entry into the land, conflict, distribution of territory, and covenant renewal. These ancient accounts of conquest require careful attention to their setting. They do not authorize modern violence or the seizure of another people's land.
With Joshua 15–18 in view: How does this account portray responsibility for receiving and living in the land?
Reflect on today’s passage
What response follows from the passage rather than from an idea you brought to it?
One response
Choose one modest response and explain the part of the reading that prompted it.
Pray
Bring one observation, one question, and one need from today’s reading to God. Ask for understanding and wisdom to respond faithfully.
Original study guidance; awaiting independent human theological review.