Potentials in Liabilities
"And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph—to Ephraim and Manasseh—saying, “You are a great people and have great power; you shall not have only one lot, but the mountain country shall be yours. Although it is wooded, you shall cut it down, and its farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots and are strong.”" (Joshua 17:17-18 NKJV) Like many developing nations with large population challenges, the house of Joseph saw liabilities in its great people within the single lot allocation. It is not a news that these challenges often promotes indiscipline, stealing, cheating, fraud, and corruption as the burden of leadership. In the exchange of the attending dirty politics, the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh had prepared not to take responsibility for their lot; but to shift the blame on Joshua's allocation strategy. However, Joshua's assessment reveals asset - great power - instead of liabilities. This implies that g...