“I will never break My covenant with you, and as for you, you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall tear down their altars.” (Judges 2:1-2)
When you read Judges it is important to understand why all the trials of the nation of Israel happened. It wasn’t simply that they hadn’t driven the other nations out. They hadn’t torn down the idolatrous altars. God gave them the land, and they accepted false gods within that same land.
Every altar left untouched should have infuriated God’s people. The righteous should have risen up as one to remove every wicked abomination that dared to claim the title ‘god’ that rightly belonged only to Jehovah.
Remember – leave no altars in your soul. Seek to tear them all down until only Jesus sits upon the throne of your heart.
Matthew 4:4 #Biblebites
This Week’s Reading: Judges 1-7; Psalm 26; Proverbs 26 This year, #Biblebites are looking at lessons from the history of the Old Testament. Each week reads a section of history with a Psalm to meditate on and a dash of Proverbs to dwell upon. If you would like a copy of the reading schedule, you can view it here: https://eastlandchristians.org/news-events/2024-vision