Collected or prepared by Pastor Wilfred Chung

Compromising With The World

Meditation on Judges 2

After Joshua and the elders of his generation had passed away, the Israelites began to compromise with the Canaanites in the land by making treaty with them. This was the beginning of a vicious cycle in their history during the period of judges.

They followed their neighbors to practice their sexual religions, their children intermarry with their them, they were then subjugated by the Canaanites and suffered intensively, they cried to God for deliverance and repented, as a result God heard their cry and send them a judge to deliver them from their bondage and poverty. But soon they disobey God and sin again Him again. Thus the cycle repeated itself.

Romans 12:2 said, "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. " (NKJV) Daily our mind need to be renewed by the presence of the Holy Spirit so we would not adopt the kind of worldly practice that is against the principle of the word of God. Only then can we avoid the vicious cycle like the people of God in the time of Judges.

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