The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Judges 2:12-15, “…and they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; thus they provoked the LORD to anger.
13 So they forsook the LORD and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
14 And the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He gave them into the hands of plunderers who plundered them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies around them, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
15 Wherever they went, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had spoken and as the LORD had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed.”

I love Jewish people! I truly do! Yet, I have to say that they are the stubbornest people with whom I’ve ever dealt. Stubborness is not always a bad thing, yet it was as noted in the verses above. From their earliest days, Israel had been well instructed regarding the LORD’s love and concern for His people. Still, they openly and deliberately wandered from His Divine Instructions and served the pagan gods of other nations.

If that’s how you going to be, the LORD said, I will turn you over to those nations that worship false gods. You will then understand what it is to be ruled by your enemies. From that moment onward, Israel was tormented by the people who were their natural enemies. The gods they all worshipped did nothing for them; and the LORD had turned Himself away from them, too.

As the theme of Judges is, Man wanders; God Restores. But when Israel turned away from the LORD, she had no support military or economic. She had no deliverence from her evil captivity. It works the same with us today. God the Father gave His Son, Jesus Christ to instruct us how to worship the Father. We become so distracted by the evil that engulfs us that we often join with it. Then, we’re in a supreme dilemma! We have no one to deliver us. We are captive to sin with apparently no way out!

But there is a way out! It is through confessing our sin, repudiating it completely, and begging God’s forgiveness. When we do so with complete sincerity, He lovingly forgives us and becomes the Supreme Controller of our lives. Every power within Him is then at our disposal. We are released from sin and learn to worship Him with a true heart and soul. Give Him a chance to show you what He can do with your life! You will never want to turn back to the old and evil ways.

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom