Albert Einstein once said that insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." If we use this definition, then the people of Israel look pretty crazy in this chapter of The Story. In the time of the Judges the people of God went through the same cycle over and over again. Each time they rebelled and turned away from God they would face the same results: a foreign army would invade and they would end up an oppressed, occupied, and broken nation.You would think that after living through this cycle two or three times they would have caught on. But this chapter of The Story makes clear that they did not learn from past experience. Every time they ended up oppressed and abandoned, they were shocked!
As we read these Bible accounts, it would be easy to wag a finger at our ancestors of the faith. But when we look into a mirror and examine our own lives, we just might see ourselves acting a lot like the people of Israel, wallowing in the same cycle of s
in month after month and year after year.
-- Randy Frazee "Getting to the Heart of God's Story"
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