Sometimes we just have to learn the value of failing - Joshua 6-10

God sometimes allows bad things to happen to us so that we can learn to trust Him in our failures and He can turn the failure into a strategy for success later. Only God has the power to do that: To turn our failures into success. In Joshua 7:8 we read that Joshua was worried that their defeat against Ai was going to mark them before their enemies as cowards and they would be seen as weak. Of course, at the time he didn't know about Achan's sin and the reason for the defeat at Ai ... somewhat due to his and the nations own pride. God, after clearing up the reason for the defeat by punishing Achan, uses the defeat as a way to entice the enemy to chase after them. In 8:6 we see that the very thing that Joshua was afraid of (that the enemy would think they are weak) would be used as the cheif strategy agains Ai. God and God alone can turn our biggest defeat into a victory for Him. God knows that we will fail. He only wants us to trust Him in our failure and allow Him to turn the failure into a skill. In Psalm 144:1 we see David praising God for teaching him how to fight and how to war. Here, in Joshua, we have the same teaching. God uses a failure to teach Joshua how to war and how to trust Him in the war. Never think that failure is the end of the day. God will use the failure to find a way for us to have a stretgy for future victory.