Morning Musings – Page 186

Morning Musing: Judges 19:1

July 9, 2018July 6, 2018Leave a comment

“In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

Here we arrive at what is arguably the darkest narrative in all of the Scriptures. The Passion sequence is bad, to be sure, but it at least ends with hope. From nearly the first words of this chapter through the end of the story in chapter 21 not a single thing goes right. Everything is wrong. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Judges 17:13

July 6, 2018July 5, 2018Leave a comment

“Then Micah said, ‘Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

Consider the insanity of this for a minute. This man has set up his own household god, hired a passing Levite as his personal priest of his personal religion, and now boasts confidently of the blessing of the Lord because of it. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Judges 17:6

July 4, 2018July 4, 2018Leave a comment

“In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

This, at last, is the theme of the book and its final assessment. The people of Israel had fallen to a place where everyone was doing what was right in their own eyes. When a culture reaches this point, anything goes and most of it isn’t good. We each became gods unto ourselves and everything becomes a holy crusade as we try to establish our divine fiefdoms at the expense of those around us. In the end, no one wins. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Judges 17:1

July 2, 2018June 28, 2018Leave a comment

“There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

In what follows from here to the end of the book is a truly bizarre story whose ending is, short the cross and maybe not even that, the darkest chapter in all of the Scriptures. Here we see Israel finally hit rock bottom. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Judges 14:4

June 29, 2018June 28, 2018Leave a comment

“His father and mother did not know that it was from the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

Certainly God can help us by working with or even through us. But did you know that He can help us and the people around us by working in spite of us? He can use our character flaws and failings to His glory. Read the rest…