“No King in Israel”
“In those
days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his
own eyes.” (v.6)
God
had raised up judges to rule and deliver the people of Israel when he saw fit;
and at other times for their sins, He allowed them to be without them. This
verse speaks of those days with no judge to govern nor a supreme magistrate to
control the nation.
Without
a judge or a king the people again forsook the Lord and did what was right in
their own eyes. This accounts for the idolatry of Micah and his lust for money.
It was his love of money that made him so undutiful to his mother as to rob
her, and made her so unkind to her son, as to curse him (v.2).
Still today, many people, and even some professing Christians,
ignore God’s clear revelation of Himself in His Word. They think they are free
to form their own ideas of what God is like and what He expects. Strongly
influenced by a godless culture, they live at the center of their own little
world and walk in their own ways. That creates moral and spiritual confusion.
We
must take God’s Word seriously if we are to show our world that Christ gives us
freedom to do what’s right.
The
Truth
“Enter by
the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and
broad is the way that leads to
destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and
difficult is the way which
leads to life, and there are few who find it.” (Matthew 7:13-14)
