Day 31 - Judges 1, Verses 1-15

Judges 1:1‑15  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 5
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Back we go to the Old Testament to see the next step in the pictures (in OT) of the developments in a believer’s life. Genesis — New life; Exodus — coming out into a new place; then worship; then our daily problems; then Joshua — our warfare against the enemies of the truth; now “Judges” — God testing His people to see if they will live in all the blessings God has given them. What does He see? Only failure, despising the land, disobeying — these 2 things go together. So God punished them. What did they do? They cried to Him. So what did God do? Sent a “Deliverer.” When he died, what did they do? Turned back to disobedience. And so on and on through the book we start to read today. Now when we apply these lessons to our life, don’t forget, we believers in the Lord Jesus, have the Holy Spirit living in our body. He is the power which enables us to obey. When we finish this book, we’ll be reading about our mistakes and disobedience too, in 2nd Timothy. Moses, the great leader of God’s people through the wilderness, is dead. Joshua the brilliant leader in the promised land, and the conqueror of it, is also dead. They had both been chosen by God to do their particular work. All that God had commanded Moses, had been written down in a book. And we have that book in our hand, the five books of Moses — Genesis to the end of Deuteronomy. So remember that the people of whom we are now going to read, had the same five books (Deut. 12:11These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. (Deuteronomy 12:1)).