Verse of the Day 9/11

Verse of the Day 9/11

Judges 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
English Standard Version (ESV)

Our men's Bible study began a new study in the book of Judges yesterday. Today's verse comes from the very end of the book and summarises what had happened after Joshua had died leaving the people of Israel without a true leader, spiritually and militarily. The nation would rebel against God during that time and God would raise up judges to deliver and lead them, but they would soon revert back to their old ways.

What happens, even in our time when there is a lack of leadership. Sometimes it may be following a disaster or power outage and looting and rioting takes place. Without the presence of authority, leadership,some people "take the law into their own hands" and do whatever they think is right, including taking from others. It leads to lawlessness and chaos and destruction.

I had the following quote pasted in my eBible in reference to this verse, "Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher in the nineteenth century, is infamous for his bold and defiant declaration, "God is dead." Nietzsche understood that God's death was necessary for the philosophical project of self-sovereignty. "He who cannot obey himself will be commanded," he wrote. In other words, humans have only two choices: they can either obey God, or they can kill God and obey themselves.""

We have two choices every day. We can obey and follow the God who created the universe and who offers us salvation and life or follow our own desires, choose "self sovereignty", doing what is right in our own minds and eyes, apart from God bringing chaos and disorder into our lives. Which will it be?

Show that "God's not dead, He's surely alive, living on the insider roaring like a lion". (Newsboys)

Blessings,

Mike

Judges 21:25 The Message (MSG)

25 At that time there was no king in Israel. People did whatever they felt like doing.

 

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