Judges 1:1-21; 2:6-10
All through the month of October, we're going to be in the Book of Judges. This is one of my favorite Books and God shows me more and more each time I read it. So I encourage you to make the most out of the time we spend together in this amazing Book this month and to listen to Dr. Kroll's messages on Judges on Back to the Bible. You won't be disappointed.
Judges follows immediately on the heels of the Book of Joshua which ends with the Israelites vowing to follow and serve the Lord and then Joshua's death (see Joshua chapter 24). So as Judges begins, we see Judah and Simeon stepping to the forefront in Joshua's absence. The people ask the Lord who should go up against the Canaanites and He responds "'Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.'"
What does Judges 1 show us about the importance of following the Lord in all things? Tami W.
Our faith needs to grow to a state of complete trust and dependence and unwavering obedience. When we try to co-mingle our own ideas with God's plans, even though the motives may be right and the intentions good, the results will always be less than what God had intended.
Sometimes(often), I feel like the enuch with Peter ... how can I follow the Lord in all things? When Isaiah 55:8-9 says: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. The Apostle Paul says that the things I know I should do, I don't and the things I shouldn't do, I do! O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? The Precious blood of Jesus!!! Are ye washed? in the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb. Are your garments spotless are they white as snow ... Te amo!