Bible Reading: Judges 2:11-23
Key Verse: verse 16 -“Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. “
Key Words: Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges
Every time Israel hit bottom spiritually, God would raise up a judge to deliver them; but even then Israel would reject the judges (verse 17) so God would give them what they thought they wanted and after they got it, they were sorry they had it.
I have a saying I often share with our students in our school ministry. You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to choose the consequences of your actions.
Radio personality, Paul Harvey, used to tell of how an Eskimo kills a wolf. The account is grisly, yet it offers fresh insight into the consuming, self-destructive nature of sin. “First, the Eskimo coats his knife blade with animal blood and allows it to freeze. Then he adds another layer of blood, and another, until the blade is completely concealed by frozen blood. “Next, the hunter fixes his knife in the ground with the blade up. When a wolf follows his sensitive nose to the source of the scent and discovers the bait, he licks it, tasting the fresh frozen blood. He begins to lick faster, more and more vigorously, lapping the blade until the keen edge is bare. Feverishly now, harder and harder the wolf licks the blade in the arctic night.
“So great becomes his craving for blood that the wolf does not notice the razor-sharp sting of the naked blade on his own tongue, nor does he recognize the instant at which his insatiable thirst is being satisfied by his OWN warm blood. His carnivorous appetite just craves more – until the dawn finds him dead in the snow!”
It is a fearful thing that people can be “consumed by their own lusts.” Only God’s grace keeps us from the wolf’s fate.
What to do:
- Remember you are free to do what you want, but you are not free to choose the consequences of your actions.
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