Benjamin Refuses to Confess (Judges 20:12-17)

3/7/2010 8:03 AM

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY

 

My Worship Time                              Focus:  Benjamin refuses to confess

 

Bible Reading & Meditation               Reference:  Judges 20:12-17

 

            Message of the verses:  “12 ¶  Then the tribes of Israel sent men through the entire tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What is this wickedness that has taken place among you? 13  "Now then, deliver up the men, the worthless fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and remove this wickedness from Israel." But the sons of Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the sons of Israel. 14  The sons of Benjamin gathered from the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the sons of Israel. 15  From the cities on that day the sons of Benjamin were numbered, 26,000 men who draw the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah who were numbered, 700 choice men. 16  Out of all these people 700 choice men were left-handed; each one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss. 17  Then the men of Israel besides Benjamin were numbered, 400,000 men who draw the sword; all these were men of war.”

            This section can only be summed up as pride, and the Scriptures say that pride comes before a fall.  Benjamin knows that the men in their town of Gibeah did wrong, for the sin of homosexuality is a detestable sin before the Lord, and that was only one of the sins that were committed by these men.  They look out and see 400,000 soldiers ready to defeat them and they can only muster up 26,000 men so not only do they have the great odds of not having enough men, but they know that the Lord will probably not bless them at this time because of their great sin.  Be sure that your sin will find you out. 

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:   There are far too many times in my life when I am stubborn and prideful and so the end result is that I sin against the Lord, sin that caused my Savior to suffer and die on the cross to pay for those sins, and this should not be.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:

 

1. I must at all times remember that sin begins in the mind and therefore I need to fight the battle for my mind to keep it pure so that I don’t have to fight the battle outside of my mind where I will have already lost.
2. Psalm 139:  23-24 “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; 24  And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.”

 

3/7/2010 8:28 AM