Daily Verse Devo - Judges 17:6

"In those days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes."

- Judges 17:6 (NLT)

After Moses and Joshua died, the Israelites lost strong leadership. The book of Judges reveals a cycle: Israelite's rebellion, a judge sent by God to deliver them, Israel's return to the Lord, and then another period of rebellion. The time of the judges was one of the wickedest times in history. Without steady, clear guidance, the people did whatever they felt was right.

In middle school, I remember vividly what happened when the teacher left the room. Kids would go crazy - screaming, throwing things across the room, hiding under desks, and more! One student was assigned to be on lookout for the teacher and warn everyone when she was coming back.

I was always that nerdy, quiet kid who would try to read a book, write a story, or do homework in the midst of that chaos. Or the kid that the teacher assigned to essentially tattle on students who misbehaved while she was gone (and boy did I do that to the point of being obnoxious).

That's what life was like in the time of the Judges. When there was no leader, people felt no obligation to established rules or authority. They did whatever they wanted, and it was pure chaos.

While most people in America, obey governmental rules, I think we as a society have become less concerned with obeying God.

There's an agenda promoting that your sexuality is whatever you want it to be. You can change genders, be both, marry someone of any sex, or act like your married when you're not. While these activities may be legal in the eyes of the law, they're not in God's eyes.

There's this push to be politically correct and not offend anyone. There's also an underlying rule in society that truth is what we make it and we don't have the power to tell someone their truth is wrong. But the Bible gives pretty clear guidelines on how to live right.

As a Christian, it can be easy to feel like the goody two-shoes kid when the teacher's gone. We shouldn't be obnoxious about it, but our job is to promote what's right, even when no one's looking.

How will we stand up to God's truth in a world where people do what's right in their own eyes?

How can we break ourselves out of that mentality and rely on the truths of Scripture?

I know this is a big issue, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

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