Key Verse: Verse 54 – “Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.”
Key Words: And his young man thrust him through, and he died
As you read the verses in today’s devotion, you read in verse 56 that God brought wickedness upon Abimelech because he had disgraced his father in killing seventy brethren.
You simply do not disgrace God or the man of God. That’s not just a fact of life, it’s a fact of Scripture (I Timothy 5:19, Numbers 12).
Abimelech was the only judge to win leadership by “force.” Every other judge was raised up to stand against evil – Abimelech was that evil.
The wheels of God’s justice sometimes grind slowly but they grind surely.
The story is told of a farmer in a Midwestern state who had a strong disdain for “religious” things. As he plowed his field on Sunday morning, he would shake his fist at the church people who passed by on their way to worship. October came and the farmer had his finest crop ever – the best in the entire county. When the harvest was complete, he placed an advertisement in the local paper which belittled the Christians for their faith in God. Near the end of his diatribe he wrote, “Faith in God must not mean much if someone like me can prosper.” The response from the Christians in the community was quiet and polite. In the next edition of the local paper, a small ad appeared. It read simply, “God doesn’t always settle His accounts in October.”
Amen!
What to do:
✞ There is an old saying, remember it well: “I have met the enemy and it is me.”
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