My Boys are going through the story of Judges at school this week. What amaze me – is how into the stories they are. The Book of Judges speaks of judges not in the judicial sense, but rather in a super hero sense. These Judges were deliverers. The twelve men and one woman whose stories are told in this book were the instruments through which God judged those who had wandered away from Him, and through which He delivered those, who were held captive, yet sought Him.
We see a cycle that is repeated seven times, a cycle which is very similar to ones which might be in our own life. We see the people of Israel serving God, then turning to sin, being enslaved by sin, they are sorry for their sin, and finally saved from their sin.
If there’s one message to be found in the Book of Judges, it’s that sin dosen’t pay. Sin will wipe you out and trip you up.
The good news, is that although the people stumble into sin and become enslaved by sin you can also be delivered from sin, when you call upon the Lord.
