Today’s Thought “Opposites Attract?” G. Ward

 

Judges 3: ⁵ The sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; ⁶ and they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

 

Whereas mankind has sought distorting the Truth of God’s Word upon what they’ve perceived it’s saying, a prudent investigation remains searchable (*1 Cor.2:14). Our theme on today witnesses God’s select inheriting the Promised Land and every endeavor would emanate from Holy God’s instruction and whereas HE insisted they’d utterly drive the Canaanites out of the land (Judg. 1:19, 21, 35), there was great failure and carried the reverb unto generations thereafter. Moreover, their blatant disobedience saw more with their eyes, even desiring to mix and mingle, up to marrying an unfaithful, idolatrous people, whereby they would depart from any remnant of faith in the Almighty as expressed at verse 6.

Our cultural expression of freedom forgets that when we call HIM LORD, means to acknowledge a duty to obey and submit to HIS commands and since HE bought us with an incomparable and humanly impossible price – HE owns us.

 

And Lord God, what a kind Savior You are! We welcome You into our souls, for we know Your lead is perfect. May we see the Truth of Your Word with the clarity that gives You all the praise, by complying with its every demand and may the joy in knowing Your presence overwhelm our selfish desire as we become more like Jesus than ever before. Amen.