Judges 18-20
What a bloody gory mess, a slow degrading of the Children of God into a
people of unbelievable carnage.
One thing is true; God never hides us from ourselves. He allows us to see ourselves as we all
too often are. There are so many
unanswered questions here that it is hard to know what to address. Let’s stick to the elephant in the
room…violent bloody atrocities of humans against humans committed by those we
have been introduced to as “The Children of God.” How can this be?
Their title stands in abject opposition to the context.
Let’s look down another road.
Remember the Bloody Pond and Gettysburg, Emmitt Till, Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. and The Trail of Tears, Lee Harvey Oswald, O J Simpson and collateral
damage, southern lynchings, the My Lai Massacre, Jim Jones and Waco; Kent
State, Columbine, Watts riots, Jeffery Daumier, Dr. Kevorkian, James Byrd Jr.
and Wounded Knee, Matthew Shepard, Chardon High School, the Unabomber, the
Salem Witch trials and let’s not hide from 42 million abortions….
all this in a country we introduce as “one nation under God.”
It does us good to allow God, on occasion, to walk us down our own
bloody, gory, mess. “Wretched man
that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ
our Lord!” Romans 7:24-25a
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