Reading
SAA Notes
There is a cycle to the history related in the Book of Judges. That cycle is: the people begin to disobey the word of the Lord and begin to worship God according to their own light. Idolatry rears its head. God brings an enemy upon Israel. The people repent, so God brings a Judge who delivers the people from their oppressors. When the judge dies, the people fall immediately into idolatry and the cycle begins again.
SJA Notes
* Mighty God, by Your word the heavens were made, by the breath of Your mouth all the host of heaven were created. You spoke and the earth came to be.
“And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel.”
This statement should prod us to look back.
In Deuteronomy 6 we read from Moses of God’s words,
“You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
That pretty much covers most of our waking life – Teach God’s word diligent to our children, in all of life.
We read on in ch 6,
“When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?’ then you shall say to your son, …”
We know that few in Israel did this throughout the book of Judges.
And again we can ask – What of us?
Are we diligently teaching and admonishing the next generation in the scriptures? To teach the little ones of Jesus!
This is not just a command for Israel then, but for us today.
* Lord God Above,
Please help us to reject idolatry in whatever form it comes to us.
Please write Your word on our hearts, each day Your word the only mirror that always tells us the truth – So that our eyes would be open, our minds sober and clear, to know the idols.
Please help us teach the next generation of You.
Thank You Lord, for saving us, for our hope!
Amen.