Judges 19 & 20

In Judges 19 & 20, Israel reaches the bottom of their sin spiral. They have been living life doing whatever they please and what is good in their own eyes instead of God's. They see the earthly consequences of those choices spring forth and how bad things have gotten. A civil war breaks out and many of the tribes unite, tap out, and submit to God to fight this evil. God answers their cry. God always responds to repentance. They end up destroying themselves and each other in this war which is the same thing sin does to our own lives. We will have earthly consequences we will face for our choices. The Israelites become so broken, they return to God again. You can always turn back to God and He will respond. We can choose to put on the coat of Jesus and His righteousness every day and live our lives in God rather than ourselves and our sins. When we accept Jesus as our Savior, we get the Holy Spirit and He gives us the power to walk with God. This is a daily war while we are on earth. We have to intentionally choose to walk in God rather than in ourselves. We can do it. We have the same power that raised Christ from death living right here in us. when we choose Him. We can trust Him and He desperately wants us to lean in and on Him in every single thing we do.