Turning from God – The Nexus

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: Jeremiah 2:13

November 17, 2017November 15, 2017Leave a comment

“…for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the foundation of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

When we reject the One True God, we make two mistakes. We turn from the one source of life in this world. And, we turn toward something that is by definition not a source of life. More directly, it is a source of death. When we turn from God toward something else, we are necessarily turning toward nothing. We are rejecting what is in favor of what isn’t. This is never a good trade. So why do we make it? Read the rest…