Out of Brokeness

Day 1- Read Judges 3:7

As we continue in the book of Judges, we will see that this is a recurring theme for the Israelites.  Unfortunately, it is a recurring theme for us as well.  As we talked about last week, evil is anything that is not in God’s will and because we are, at best, a work in progress, we won’t be free from doing evil until we go to Jesus or until He comes back.  Since the fall of Adam and Eve in Eden, we have been broken.  Our nature is to do our own thing and some of us choose to live in that brokenness and either not care that we are broken, not know that we are broken or refuse to believe that we are broken.  Others of us realize that we are broken and know that there has to be more but we aren’t sure where to find it.  Others of us know we are broken and recognize Jesus as the only way out of that brokenness. Whether we recognize our brokenness, our evil, or not, doesn’t change the fact that just as the Israelites did before us, we too do evil in the sight of the Lord.  Take an honest look at your life.  Where are you doing evil in the sight of the Lord?  Confess that to Him and ask Him to help you overcome those sins and struggles and to keep your eyes fixed on Him.  The good news is that this doesn’t have to be the end of our story.