Maybe Your Problem is a solution to Another Problem

Judges 3:1
These are the nations the LORD left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan
Judges 3:2
(he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):

Israelites had settled into the Promised Land. They had hostile neighbors who were either luring them into idolatry or attacking them to destroy them. Israelites were now settled in the Promised Land but for some reason, they had not chased away all the Canaanite nations they were supposed to drive off. Had they failed?

They had tried chasing off these tempting and hostile communities but for some reason, they never succeeded. What could be the problem? Were they lacking military prowess? Had they refused to obey God and send away these nations? What was going on?

The Bible tells us today that, it is God who ensured those nations stay. God ensured Israelites don’t succeed in sending them away. They kept trying and re-strategizing on how to kick out these tempting and attacking nations but failure was consistent. God did not allow them to send them away. Why?

The Bible tells us today that Israelites had not experienced war. The generation that experienced war, was old, dead, and gone. The new generation knew nothing about war. God left these nations to keep provoking them to war so that as they fight them frequently, they learn warfare a skill they lucked.

While they kept fighting, God assessed them by what they learned and not by whether the nations had been driven off. While they were worried about whether these nations have left them, God was waiting for their military skills to be at their best. Their troubles were God’s deliberate training ground!

Once they had mastered the requisite military skills, God would enable them to end that menace of those nations. God was waiting for them to get better in military skills. The problem was a blessing in disguise. The problem they had was a solution to their problem of poor military skills.

Maybe your problem is understanding the other gender in order to live peacefully, therefore God takes you through heartbreaks to train you to be a good spouse. Maybe your problem is the inability to save money, God lets you lack money at a critical point and you wish you had saved money and you learn and accept to save money. Maybe your problem is denying the existence of a disease and its impact on others, God lets you suffer that very disease until you acknowledge that it exists and you sympathize with those who suffer. Maybe your problem is a solution to another problem!

When your problem is intolerance of other people, God lets you get into a trouble whose only solution is tolerance from others. When your problem is faith in people you scheme with to harm others, God lets them turn against you at a critical hour until you acknowledge that only God deserves your faith and trust. One problem can be a solution to another problem. Israelites had a problem of lacking war experience, God gave them enemies who kept attacking them and forcing them to learn military skills. A problem solved another problem. Maybe your problem is a solution to another problem!

Dear God I have several problems, if they are a solution to another problem, may your will be done and may I learn quickly the lesson you have for me, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

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