Many times over in the Book of Judges God has shown Israel how He sees things. He urges them to live according to His ways, to do what is right in God’s eyes. But continually they instead do what is right in their eyes, according to how they see things.
It was a hot summer afternoon on the Los Angeles freeway. I was driving along, when suddenly, in the middle lane was a pickup truck, going about 50 mph, with a makeshift swimming pool in the bed of the truck. Three children were having the time of their lives, yelling and splashing.
The next morning in the newspaper there was a photo of the truck, wet children, and an embarrassed driver being handed a traffic citation. The driver was quoted as saying, "It was so hot and the kids were having so much fun, I just hated to stop them."
Everybody in that truck thought they were free to do whatever they wanted -- what was right in their eyes. Well, I know this: Freedom is not doing what we please; it's pleasing God in what we do. It’s doing what is right in God’s eyes.
-- adapted from Luci Swindoll in “Extravagant Grace”
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