Breath of Power

A Weekly Devotional of Jesus Power Outreach Ministries

Key Passage: Numbers 32:23

“But if you do not do so, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out.”

Most people who commit sin figure that they will never get caught. They see themselves as invincible, lucky, or smart. But that is the same old game that always backfires. Just know that no sinner can outsmart the devil. He sets the trap and he knows how well it works. The world is full of broken people who thought their sins wouldn’t catch up with them. But it did. It’s just a matter of time. But be sure your sin will find you out.

The story was told of a boy called ‘Mr. Beans’. He earned that name because he thought he was smart. His mother left him in the garden to sow bean seedlings. He emptied all the seedlings in one bed and covered it with earth. He thought he was smart until the third day when the mother visited the garden.

Achan too thought he was smart. He was part of the Joshua army that saw the wall of Jericho fall. He heard their commander, Joshua, hand down the order, “Jericho and all in it are cursed by God. Do not touch any of the things in it, or you will be cursed and all Israel with you” (Josh 6: 18). He knew the seriousness of the order. But there he was, under the ruins of a wealthy man’s house. There was this gorgeous Babylonian coat his eyes could not go past. By the side of it was this open safe with a sizeable sum of money. Everyone in the house was dead. The entire property was already charred by the inferno. His mind told him that if he had the coat and the money that some of his problems would be over. He looked around to be sure no one was watching, took the coat and the money, put them under his overall, walked unassumingly to his tent, dug the ground and hid them. He looked around again and was sure no one took notice. He then chuckled and mumbled to himself, “Wow! I’ve made it! That was smart!”

Few days later, things began to take a different turn in the camp. Some soldiers were killed in a battle and Joshua was lying on bare ground in rags, crying. He suddenly got up to say that someone sinned. But what did that mean in a camp with hundred of thousands of soldiers? “We must find the offender”, said Joshua. Achan looked around and no one was looking at him. He was sure no one knew what he did. But just like a dream, he was picked as the offender and he found himself confessing, “I’m sorry. It’s the work of the devil. I was tempted, and I…. ” But that was late. His sin had found him out, and the end was gruesome. Please, read what happened next in Joshua 7 verses 25-26.

Sin is evil, and is a deadly trap. You better don’t fiddle with it however safe it may seem. But if you would not border to heed to that warning, you should be certain of one thing, ‘Your sin will find you out’.

Written by – Evangelist Oguazi Onyemobi