Thursday, April 30, 2009

Right In Their Own Eyes

Judges 19-21

"Every man did that which was right in his own eyes."

This is a sad condition the children of Israel have put themselves in because they have not chosen God as their king and judge. Judges 19 tells a story about a Levites who journeys into Gibeah (where the Benjamites live) with his concubine. There men of Belial from that city rape and abuse her until she dies. This causes great contention between the children of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin. So much so that they go to war against each other and the army of Benjamites is destroyed.

I guess the Lord had this recorded in the Bible to show us what happens when we forsake Him and do what's right in our own eyes. It causes divisions in families.

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