There's a pattern emerging in our reading today. May it not be the pattern of our life. The pattern which I see in today's reading is that people who should be hearing God's word and be conformed to it in faith are not. They reject God's word and manage to plunge themselves into sin and bondage. Over and over again we see, especially in Judges, God's people hearing and believing, then doing nothing with their belief. They do not teach their children, they do not evangelize the world, sometimes they don't even cling to that faith throughout their own lives. Those who should be blessed are bringing curses upon themselves. May this never be the story told of us.
Just the same, if it is, look how powerful God's word is. When his people refuse his blessings he raises up more people who will receive his blessings. Our God is the God of blessing to all who do not reject him. Let us proclaim that blessing, the Gospel of Christ, as far as the curse of sin is found. Let us live within that blessing of new life in Christ. Let us teach our families, our children, our neighbors of the God who redeems a people to himself.
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