FAITH CAPSULE: Being evil takes away or destroys that which is good.
Judges 6:1-10
It is only the fear God that will make man to depart from evil. With the lack of fear for God man is set to be bound in evil doing. Being evil or doing that which is evil does not add up for any man even when it seems to be adding up. Being evil takes away or destroys that which is good. Do you truly fear Him on the ground which He has positioned you for blessing? Not to fear Him where He has positioned you to be is a direct route to fall, fail or falter and eventually lost of ground of blessing. Once in the days of Judges, the children of Israel turned to evil when they fail to fear God. As a result of their failure to fear God, God passed them to the evil hand in the very land which He gave them. It is written, “Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD. So the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years, and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made for themselves the dens, the caves, and the strongholds, which are in the mountains.” (Judges 6:1-2) The children of Israel departed from fearing God and entered into evil. As a result, the Israelites left behind a God-given land and made for themselves a hiding place in dens, caves, and strongholds. For the Israelites, it was not supposed to be. They had a God-given land and could not retain it because they had attended and attained what is not of God.
When God gives, He does not give sparingly so do not spare yourself from serving Him indeed and in truth. When He bless, he does not add sorrow. Anytime there is a move from God-made to self-made it is evil and God will withdraw His hand. God withdrew His hand, “So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them. Then they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor donkey.” (Judges 6:3-4) They suffered greatly because they withdrew from God by their evil act. Are you experiencing unexpected, unceasing attack on your God given ground? Cave or any other kind of hideouts is not your portion on the ground He has placed you. Will you search and see if there is any wicked way in you? No man is perfect except God and He alone knows every man’s heart.
Prayer for today: Ask God to search you, try you, fix you, and lead you from all kinds of wicked ways into the way everlasting. He is faithful and He answers prayer.