Transformation From Book of Judges.

Judges is about the faithlessness of the people, but it is also about the faithfulness of God. God unlike His people takes His promises seriously. Judges reads as if God’s blue ray player is stuck, but in fact it is God’s people who are stuck in a cycle of degenerating faith and over indulgences  that are  followed by crisis, which prompts repentance.We have all done it although not quite as shamelessly.. The truth here in Judges is that God never gives up on His people, so He will never give up on us.

God does rescue them eventually. God always keeps His Covenant even though His people break theirs. Our sins {wrong doings} may be different to those of this time of Judges, but those sins are no less real.

Christian these days circum to at least  three kinds of idols, if not more, lust, greed, envy, without even realizing they are doing it.As in all the Bible, there is maybe a message for us all here. One of the reasons Judges is good to read, is  to know that incomplete tasks are a trap and they were to the Israelites.It involved them in compromise. There lies many tasks in Christianity today, that are incomplete, like the great commission to evangelize the world for Our Lord and Our friend, and genuine unity and understanding between believers of different Christian groups, for which Jesus prayed.

The incompleteness of these tasks is likely to lead to compromise, with the world around us and the failure to fulfill what God really requires us to do.  We should all just be more about Our Heavenly Fathers business.

Judges 4 verse 5: We read the story of Deborah. Deborah was one of the last people who in her culture would have been expected to achieve what she achieved. The Principle here is God doesn’t require His servants?workers to have a certain human or social status. God can use anybody who make themselves available to Him, even those with great doubt.

Allow ourselves to be fully Transformed by Our Lord and Our Friend, who paid the price for our freedom of sin.

God Bless

OFJ