What stood out today:
4 Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time.
9 "Very well," Deborah said, "I will go with you. But because of the way you are going about this, the honor will not be yours, for the LORD will hand Sisera over to a woman." So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh,
21 But Jael, Heber's wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.
when the people willingly offer themselves—
praise the LORD!
31 "So may all your enemies perish, O LORD!
But may they who love you be like the sun
when it rises in its strength."
Then the land had peace forty years.
My response: Lord God, this is an important passage! The time of the Judges was a confused and dark time for Israel. We live in a similar time. Your church has lost relevance with the culture. Leadership is weak, people are in chaos. Yet you are still present and active and working through whoever You choose. It does seem as even Deborah knows You want to work through Barak and not her, yet she is willing and braver than Barak. I love vs 5:2; it seems to resonate with what the leaders in the grassroots have been crying out for, “When will the princes lead?” They want the elders/princes to lead as a team. We all want to work together as the body of Christ. We all want Your enemies to perish by becoming Your friends. We all want to rise together in Your strength and shine like the Son – Lit up by Christ, Glorifying God – in all ways possible, in everyway imaginable. Jesus, what is our redemptive potential?
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