“In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
Judges chapter 21 was probably written about 1100 BC. The population of Isreal was around a half million people and the first part of this verse says there was no king to rule them. But then the next phrase says something else… There was no official king of Israel so instead there were about a half million little kings who did what was right in their own eyes.
We see the same thing in America today. We follow laws we agree with and self-righteously dismiss laws that are inconvenient. We make ourselves the final moral authority which doesn’t produce freedom, only chaos. As we scream about the importance of not having kings, we ironically crown ourselves as the only legitimate rulers. Arbitrarily deciding what is right by what we feel, we insist that everyone ratify our lunacy.…. Not only will we not tolerate rebellion… we won’t even tolerate disagreement. Everyone must accept our make-believe royal decrees or they will be canceled.
So, it doesn’t look like much has changed in the last 3000 years. We still do what we deem right, and you are welcome to peacefully coexist as long as you agree wholeheartedly with my views. We crown ourselves as little Emperors who tolerate no critics nor detractors.
However, in the real world, there is only one King…and it’s not you or me… but since we’re made in His image, we constantly try to take the job. We declare ourselves as deity and allow opinions as long as they validate our illusions. The problem with that is that in the book of Judges this philosophy ends with moral decay, Idolatry, oppression, sexual violence, civil war, fraudulent religions, etc. So again, nothing has changed in the last 3000 years… Same stupid idea that we can be God, produces the same destructive corrosion that sin always generates. You would think we would learn from history, but here we are…
So, you decide. You have a King… but will you acknowledge Him? Jesus came to be your Savior and Lord… He is either both, or He is neither.
“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done, ‘ and those to whom God says, ‘All right then, have it your way’”
- C.S. Lewis
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