Re:Verse passage – Judges 1:1-2, 8-13, 20 (day six)
I don’t imagine any of the tribes were defiant, at least not in the beginning. They didn’t set out to disobey God outright. Likely, it was a gradual decline; subtle diversions, cut corners, postponements (“I’ll get serious about that later.”) Like petty crime, no one would really notice (or even care), unless they were really looking.
Even the smallest diversions can descend into the deepest chasms, the kind that even when you look back you can’t see where you started from or where you are going.
In their wildest imaginations, they never dreamed they would forget God, and fall in love with gods of their own making, but they did.
…and so do we.
“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,…”-C.S. Lewis, The Screw Tape Letters
“Who will rescue me from this body of death?! Thank God! The answer is in Jesus!”- Paul, Romans 7:24-25
