Can the Jebs

Joshua 15-19 is all about how the tribes divided the land and went in and settled in their portion alloted them. Sadly, many tribes didn't drive out all the Jebusites, or the Canaanites or whoever was there. It reads that they still remain there today because it was their choice to become weary of fighting and just put up with them. Sometimes they made them their slaves which meant they still had to feed them and take care of them. I wonder what the Jebusites and Canaanites are in my life. "Canaanites" means to humiliate or make you bend your knee. They sound like accusers, which sounds just like the "accuser of the brethren".
Rev. 12:10 says that "the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night." The devil is always looking for an ear he can speak into. He says things like, "you can't expect God to use you after what you did." "Surely you don't think God told you to say that, remember how you got mad and lost your temper?" "You're not good enough." ETC. We are suppose to "cast down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." 2Co 10:5.
The Canaanites had iron chariots! Isn't it interesting how these intimidating thoughts come in droves. One thought leads to another. "Chariot" in the Hebrew means a team; the upper millstone. Everytime the word "millstone" is mentioned in the Bible it is being cast somewhere: either down, into the sea, or around someone's neck and then cast into the sea. So that is what we need to do to millstones the devil tries to put on us. They need to be cast down.
Another enemy left in the land were the Jebusites. In the Hebrew they meant "to trample; tread down under foot; be poluted". God hates mixture and that is what the enemies did to the Israelites. They wanted them to add their gods in with THE God. When we start adding in other gods we become poluted. James 1:27 says that 'Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Lord, show us what we have allowed in our life that keeps us from being pure and holy. What have we allowed into our lives that has polluted our soul and intimidated our walk. Help us identify it and cast it out. Be our strong tower today.