Days of Decision

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Judges 17:6
In the days of the Judges the hearts of the people forgot their God. Making a living, trying for that promotion, and reaching for a dream became more important than their Creator, their God, and eternity.

In those days the voices of Judges were silenced. Folks just did not want to hear, to realize, to come to an understanding that the way the were doing things were wrong. Without leadership and the proclamation of God’s Word people followed what they believed was right; a way that was easier, they “did that which was right in their own eyes.”

In our day, are we all that much different from these people of the past? Have we, as a nation, as a world, given up on God and turned to do our own thing? Is God a relic, a notion of the past clouded in mysterious words and symbols that applied only to the days of Moses or King David or the times of the prophets?

Is the God of the Bible still on the throne? Is this mysterious and loving God on the throne of your heart? What is important to you or to me? What takes up our time and enters into our pocket book? Who do we look to when times are tough or when times are going good for us? Who is the strength of our lives?

These are questions of the heart. Have you asked them of yourselves? Have you looked beyond the surface and reached inside your heart and seen what is there? Is the peaceful light of God’s abiding grace there or is the substance there of your own creation?

In our day, just as in the days of the Judges we have a choice. Will we do what we think is right or will we study the Bible and learn what is right and wrong? Will we crack open a book that many believe is full of condemnation and judgment? Or, can we, will we, see there love, peace, grace, and mercy? Mercy for the heart so in need of mercy?

Then once we’ve seen the light of what God states is right will we surrender to Him so that what he asks, he can then perform in our hearts?

We live in the days of decision.