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Joshua 7: 1-26: Achan's Sin.
Only a few weeks into his leadership and Joshua is faced with his first major challenge. The angle of God had commanded Joshua to destroy Jericho in its entirety, people, wealth, livestock, everything. In Joshua 6: 17-19 Joshua had made it clear that everything in the city except Rahab and her family, was to be devoted to God. Achan broke this command by taking some of the devoted things and burying them under his tent. When the Israelites went into battle against the city of Ai, they were defeated and thirty six soldiers were killed. Joshua is broken, but The Lord speaks to Joshua and tells him what has happened, threatening to abandon The People unless they 'destroy amoung them whatever is devoted to destruction'. ( Josh 7: 12) Joshua is commanded to purify The People. Through taking lots he finds out that it is Achan who has taken the devoted items. Speak truthfully, he tells him, and so Achan tells Joshua what he has done. Joshua retrieves the items and then Achan, along with everything he owns, his family, his tent, his animals, are all stoned to death and then burnt.
The song is the conversation between Joshua and Achan, a conversation that is hard to imagine. Achan is honnest; he knows what he has done, and he knows the consequence. We are all faced with choice; to hold on to what we have or to put our trust in God. Even as I write this I am questioning my self and the choices I make and then hide under days, and life, and the whirlwind of just being. But all our choices will have consequences so we make them with our eyes open. Justice belongs to God not based on human ideals, as hard as that is for us to come to terms with.

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Oh My Son, What have you done? Don’t hide it from me
Oh My Son, What have you done
Oh My son, What have you done? Don’t hide it from me
Oh My Son, What have you done

If I could change this day, And wipe it all away
But now I’ve gone and sold it all for
Silver and Gold
Buried and cold
You gave me my World
There’s nothing left to hold on to but
Silver and Gold
Twisted and cold
You gave me my World
And All my world comes raining down on me

Oh My Son, What have you done? Brought trouble on us
Oh My Son, What have you done
Oh My son, What have you done? Don’t hide it from me
Oh My Son, What have you done

I Thought that I could change this day, And hide my shame away
But now I’ve gone and sold it all for
Silver and Gold
Buried and cold
You gave me my World
I made the price and sold it all for
Silver and Gold
Devoted and cold
You gave me my World
And All my world comes raining down on me

Oh my Son, What have you done? Give glory to Him
Oh my Son, What have you done?
Oh my Son, What have you done? Give glory to Him
Oh my Son, What have you done?

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from The Strength and the Courage, released March 7, 2019

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