I was doing my morning reading through the book of Judges and was shocked at how twisted this man named Micah was.
The chapter starts off with him stealing from his mother, then returning the money, then she makes him an idol out of the returned money, and he makes his son the priest of his idols. Later, a Levite comes by and he hires him to be the priest instead of his son and says: "Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest." Judges 17:13
How can this guys definition of right and wrong be so thwarted? How can he think God is pleased with his actions?
Sure he hired God's ordained ministers to be his priest (Lev7:35), but he was worshiping a idol! He wasn't even worshiping the one true God! So he wasn't obeying the Levite Priest law, because he broke a much more serious law: "Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in the heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth; Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me." Deut 5:8-9
How could Micah have missed the obvious truth and think God would bless him? Because "In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes." Judges 17:6
He defined good and evil for himself instead of looking to the law of God.
Seems like a strange, crazy story, right? Except, that it is one we see all around us and even participate in today.
I often hear people say, "I'm just going to try to be a good person." or "Being a Christian , for me, is to do good things for people."
Sounds alright? What about the fact that they're doing what is good in their own eyes? We saw that that can lead to some pretty messed up ideas.
God brought me to see how I was doing this very thing! I was obeying God in one area of my life (or so I thought), but rejecting Him in another.
Here's a personal example: I pray and read my Bible in the morning. But lately, my heart is not in it. Instead of finding my joy and satisfaction in Christ, I've been finding it in entertainment and the pleasures of this world. Will God do me good if I honor him with my outward actions, but my heart is far from Him (Judges 17:13, Mark 7:6) ?
We need to repent of all our sin. We need to stop doing what we think is right in our own eyes and start following what God says is right through the Holy Bible.
The chapter starts off with him stealing from his mother, then returning the money, then she makes him an idol out of the returned money, and he makes his son the priest of his idols. Later, a Levite comes by and he hires him to be the priest instead of his son and says: "Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest." Judges 17:13
How can this guys definition of right and wrong be so thwarted? How can he think God is pleased with his actions?
Sure he hired God's ordained ministers to be his priest (Lev7:35), but he was worshiping a idol! He wasn't even worshiping the one true God! So he wasn't obeying the Levite Priest law, because he broke a much more serious law: "Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in the heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth; Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me." Deut 5:8-9
How could Micah have missed the obvious truth and think God would bless him? Because "In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes." Judges 17:6
He defined good and evil for himself instead of looking to the law of God.
Seems like a strange, crazy story, right? Except, that it is one we see all around us and even participate in today.
I often hear people say, "I'm just going to try to be a good person." or "Being a Christian , for me, is to do good things for people."
Sounds alright? What about the fact that they're doing what is good in their own eyes? We saw that that can lead to some pretty messed up ideas.
God brought me to see how I was doing this very thing! I was obeying God in one area of my life (or so I thought), but rejecting Him in another.
Here's a personal example: I pray and read my Bible in the morning. But lately, my heart is not in it. Instead of finding my joy and satisfaction in Christ, I've been finding it in entertainment and the pleasures of this world. Will God do me good if I honor him with my outward actions, but my heart is far from Him (Judges 17:13, Mark 7:6) ?
We need to repent of all our sin. We need to stop doing what we think is right in our own eyes and start following what God says is right through the Holy Bible.
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