I am doing a terrible job of blogging my reading. The biggest thing that struck me this week, though, was as I was reading through the book of Jonah: God is gracious. The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s proclamation; and look–something greater than Jonah is…
Tag: God’s judgment
Judges: God uses broken people.
I just finished my study of the book of Judges, and, wow, so many thoughts. The stories that have stuck out to me: Deborah and Barak. Gideon. Abimelech. Jephthah. Samson, Micah, Gibeah. With a few others stuck in. Every single story is about the failure of people to do the right thing. First we have Barak (Judges 4), who ought…