June 6, 2025
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Reading along with us in Judges, Proverbs, and Psalms? Here’s today’s reading:
Judges 17 (NIV)
1 Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute. 2Gilead’s wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. “You are not going to get any inheritance in our family,” they said, “because you are the son of another woman.”…..Continue Reading
Micah is a perfect example of trying to have a relationship with God on our own terms not His. He misused the laws in a way he felt made things look right. Altars, ephods, even a priest for hire but all were done the wrong way and with the wrong intention. He thought he could look like he was right with God and that would make him right with God and all the way it was driven by selfish pride. Maybe not to this extreme but often we find ourselves wanting to be in the drivers seat in our relationship with God going about things our own way, this chapter helps as a reminder of how ridiculous that looks!
Judges 17-19
What an ignominious beginning of this account. It goes to show what happens when people have vestiges of truth, but little conviction about it or clear direction. An idol seems a good thing in a case like that, as does an Ephod and installing a son as priest. And hey, what a great addition a Levite is to this hodgepodge of religiosity that would make the true God unhappy. It reenforces the need to adhere to the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And not pick and choose what seems right to me. How many people in this world are like this though, having just enough religion to be comfortable, but not truly transformed.