Not Everything That Looks Like a Threat Is Actually a Threat

Learning from the War-That-Almost-Happened in Joshua 22

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When we respond to things, we’re responding to what we perceive to be the case. Sometimes we’re right, but sometimes we’re wrong. We don’t see everything clearly. We might actually perceive something to be a grave danger, when in reality it isn’t what we feared at first. Not everything that looks like a threat is actually a threat.