Judges 9
Devotional:
In this way, God punished Abimelech for the evil he had done against his father by murdering his seventy brothers. (Judges 9:56)
Gideon’s son, Abimelech, wants to rule over Israel. To eliminate any competition, he gets money from the people of his mother’s hometown of Shechem in order to hire some “worthless and reckless fellows” to kill his 70 brothers. Abimelech also turns on the people of Shechem and destroys them. These events show growing evil in Israel at this time, but God sees this evil and returns the evil of Abimelech when a woman pushes a millstone from a tower down onto Abimelech’s head. There is an old hymn that says, “This is my Father’s world, O let me ne’er forget, that though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.” It was true in the time of Judges and is still true today. When you see evil in our world, don’t forget that God still reigns. “‘Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord’” (Romans 12:19).
In this way, God punished Abimelech for the evil he had done against his father by murdering his seventy brothers. (Judges 9:56)
Gideon’s son, Abimelech, wants to rule over Israel. To eliminate any competition, he gets money from the people of his mother’s hometown of Shechem in order to hire some “worthless and reckless fellows” to kill his 70 brothers. Abimelech also turns on the people of Shechem and destroys them. These events show growing evil in Israel at this time, but God sees this evil and returns the evil of Abimelech when a woman pushes a millstone from a tower down onto Abimelech’s head. There is an old hymn that says, “This is my Father’s world, O let me ne’er forget, that though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.” It was true in the time of Judges and is still true today. When you see evil in our world, don’t forget that God still reigns. “‘Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord’” (Romans 12:19).
Pray it:
Father, my heart breaks for the evil that I see in the world around me. Comfort my heart through the promise that you reign even in the midst of such evil and that you will bring the justice that my heart yearns to see. Amen.
Father, my heart breaks for the evil that I see in the world around me. Comfort my heart through the promise that you reign even in the midst of such evil and that you will bring the justice that my heart yearns to see. Amen.
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