Day 60: November 15, 2025 – Judges 6-10 and Psalm 43

We begin to see the list of judges that come into power in the land of Israel and the cycle of disobedience, appointing of a judge, obedience, the death of the judge, and disobedience take place. Sitting and reading Judges one could ask the question how are they able to forget how God has been so faithful to them. Think about what happens when a judge rules for 20 or 30 or 40 years and who is around to remember what God has done. Once that judge dies then a new way of doing things takes over and inevitably, it seems but it doesn’t have to be that way, the way of God is forgotten. We see here that the people of Israel fall into slavery once a judge dies because they do forget what God has done and abandon the ways of the Lord and then they are subjected to slavery under very many different rulers.

I wonder what parallel we can draw to today and how God is obeyed at times faithfully in the church, and then there are times that God is forgotten and obedience is not present for a season. The challenge of the church is always to return back to God after that season of disobedience. I guess the challenge would be to have no seasons of disobedience, but seeing what happens in Judges reminds us that it is often out of our hands and the disobedience follows almost inevitably.