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Two
questions are raised within me as I read through Judges 18. Both questions deal with faith. Both questions deal with our human motivation
within our relationship with God.
The first
question is born out of the question that the Danites ask the priest when they
come to plunder Micah. “Would you rather
be the priest of 1 or the priest of 600?”
Not that I think that Micah is the world’s most faithful person, but I
don’t think I’d like to be the priest of 600 thieves and bullies, either! The greater point that we hear in this is the
human idea that bigger is better. Are
600 automatically better than 1? What if
God’s calling is to the 1? What if the
600 have no respect for God? Yet, at
first pass, human beings almost always pick the greater quantity instead of the
lesser.
The second
question comes out of Micah’s response to his gods and priest being taken
away. “What have I left if you take away
my gods and my priest?” This phrase
reveals a great deal about Micah’s relationship with God. Can mankind take away our relationship with
God? If God is the source of our power,
life, and salvation, then who can take away those things? Micah is more worried about the material
representations of life than true life itself!
Don’t get me
wrong on either of these points. Human
nature is to fall in line with the assertion of the Danites. We think more is better. Human nature also tends to focus on the tangibles
and forget about the intangibles. Both
are short-sighted opinions, however. We
should be more focused on things like where God is calling and how God can
provide for us.
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