The Hikers Path (Journal)

Stop reading this for a moment, pick up your bible and turn to Judges chapter 10. Take a moment prior to continuing in which to read verses 13 - 16…

One question popped into my mind while I was reading this passage, and that is of repentance. This is a term you don’t hear very much any longer, as the modern gospel message usually states that one is to ask Jesus into their heart. Perhaps the reason you don’t hear of it any longer is because people do not live out repentance.

Israel in this passage has just done as it has at several other times in their history… They have “put away” the strange gods. Why put them away and not destroy them as Moses did in Exodus 32:19 - 20? The answer lies in repentance.

There are too many times where we depend on the mercy of the Lord, and don’t realize how far away we have strayed. Then when we are shown, we do just as Israel… We “put away” the thing that caused us to sin and serve the Lord. When what we ought do is burn the thing and grind it into a powder so we can never go back to what we had done prior.

Never take God’s mercy for granted! Instead, correct the problem and stomp out the sin, that it can never again tempt or harm you.