Friday, April 13, 2012

Bible Reading Challenge Week 15 Day 5

Our reading challenge for the day is Judges 10-14. I’ll hit a few highlights. You make comments too and fill in the gaps. What strikes you as specially significant?

In our readings about Gideon I was thinking of how poor a candidate for the deliverer of Israel he was. But as we read along today the people of Israel are doing worse and worse. The people spiral into idolatry again and again. And the judges aren’t much better! Jephthah and Samson both show themselves to be rash and ill-advised. The whole situation here reminds me of what we read in Romans chapter 1 when God turns people over to do their own desires, to pursue their own sinful goals. It is a terrible thing when God allows us to go our own way. We have an uncanny ability to follow our nature which we inherited from Adam. We find that as sinners we all sin.

Thanks be to God that in Jesus Christ he has taken the sin of the world and made reconciliation, atonement for the sin of Adam and his children, so we can be children of Christ instead!

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