TESTING GOD
Judith 8:11-13
They came to her, and she said to them, “Listen to me now, rulers of the people of Bethulia! Your words spoken today to the people are not right, nor is the oath you have sworn and pronounced between God and yourselves, promising to surrender the city to our adversaries unless the Lord turns and helps you in so many days.
“Now who are you to have put God to the test this day, setting yourselves up as God's equal among the sons of men? You are testing the Lord Almighty, but you will never come to know anything!”
Personal Challenge
Judith is another one of the apocryphal books that many western Christians have never read. It is indeed worth the read. Judith is challenging the leaders of Bethulia because they have just made a decree that they will give God five days to deliver them from the army of Holofernes. If He doesn't do that then they will surrender. We do not have the right or the power to box God in this way. He will always rescue us on His timeline and in his way. Our role is to trust in Him and keep living for Him, no matter how dire the situation may get. That is when His deliverance shows the brightest. Glory be to God!
They came to her, and she said to them, “Listen to me now, rulers of the people of Bethulia! Your words spoken today to the people are not right, nor is the oath you have sworn and pronounced between God and yourselves, promising to surrender the city to our adversaries unless the Lord turns and helps you in so many days.
“Now who are you to have put God to the test this day, setting yourselves up as God's equal among the sons of men? You are testing the Lord Almighty, but you will never come to know anything!”
Personal Challenge
Judith is another one of the apocryphal books that many western Christians have never read. It is indeed worth the read. Judith is challenging the leaders of Bethulia because they have just made a decree that they will give God five days to deliver them from the army of Holofernes. If He doesn't do that then they will surrender. We do not have the right or the power to box God in this way. He will always rescue us on His timeline and in his way. Our role is to trust in Him and keep living for Him, no matter how dire the situation may get. That is when His deliverance shows the brightest. Glory be to God!
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