Today's Passage: Judges 1-2
I am so excited to be able to introduce the book of Judges to our continuing study of God's Word Every Day. It's crazy but to me it feels like just yesterday that we were starting Genesis.
A couple important things to know about the book of Judges are: 1) It is a continuation of the story of Israel and explains the events following God's people settling in Canaan. 2) It focuses on the second generation of the promised land and their disobedience to God. 3) It covers seven cycles of God raising up leaders (Judges) followed by the unfortunate return to sin by Israel.
The second chapter of Judges is a very important chapter since it explains the events that lead to Israel's disobedience. The story explained in Judges has been retold many different ways in thousands of books and movies. You have likely seen or read one of these stories that depict a humble father who works hard to gain success only to hand it down to a son who doesn't respect the work it took to obtain that success. This is the story of Judges.
We see this same story play out in our own lives also. If I'm honest I seldom slow down to think about all of the work someone else has done for me to enjoy... or abuse the privileges I have. The sillier part is we know that we don't take enough time to reflect. As a culture we try to make up for it by assigning holidays to the things that deserve our gratitude. Hopefully through our study of Judges we will all grow to see what God truly desires from us.
Not an appreciation that is displayed only on special occasions, but an everyday lifestyle of appreciation for what God our father has done for us. Let us not be the ungrateful generation but the one that truly shows God our thankfulness by the way that we live.
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