Provoked
Judges 2:7-12 “And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that He did for Israel...and also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which He had done for Israel...and they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were around them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.”
My wife Sue has been very busy in the camp kitchen, in the office but also in the study and presentation of God’s Word. In one of her recent studies, she touched upon the life of Samson that caused me to go back and glance over the opening chapters of Judges. The text goes on to say “they could not any longer stand before their enemies. Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.”
I clearly remember the 60’s and the civil unrest that threatened our national stability. Today, the moral consensus has been brought to ruin and even within the professed household of faith, there is a forsaking of all that is holy. I’ve long been engaged in realms of criminal justice and our experience within the ranks of law enforcement, prisons and communities reveals a distress of nation imminent upon us all. We often refer to police as the "thin blue line" between forces of good and evil; oh, that we obey the mandate to pray for such as are ordained to this legitimate authority.
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