What Seems Right
📖Daily Reading
Judges 17
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📝 Reflection
Judges 17:6
In those days Israel had no king: all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes.
This verse is buried in the story of 'Micah’s Idols'. What caught my attention immediately was that the beginning of this story included Micah’s mother. She had quite a bit of money stolen from her. She placed a curse on whomever stole it, and Micah overheard this. He then confesses that he stole it. Ironically she is so impressed with his honesty that she praises him and even takes some of the money and has it melted down and has an idol made from it and also commissions a carving in Micah’s image to honor him. As a mom and parent I am confronted by this. When we don’t have higher guiding principles and use them in our daily lives and situations it is easy for something that seems right and feels good to us to be our guide, right?
Micah then was also fooled into thinking that he had done a great thing that deserved to be worshipped. He goes on to hire his own entourage and even a personal Levite priest to serve him. He creates a little kingdom of his own. 🤦♀️. It ripples out further from there and the tribe of Dan comes along and sees what is happening. They lure the Levite away with something that seemed great - ‘wouldn’t it be much better to serve a whole tribe instead of one man?’. The young Levite says to himself ‘seems right…’, lets go’. So in this time, literally everyone was doing what seemed right, they had lost their way and their true guiding light - the Lord. Even the Levite, who was supposedly set aside for the Lord, forgot and went along with what seemed right!
I am not sure I can expound much further here! The message was loud and clear to me. Don’t just do what seems right and feels good in the eyes of ourselves or other humans. I am a recovering people pleaser, probably always will be, this is my default setting. But if we rely on only our own human judgement of what seems right we can really get into serious trouble! This mom was not wrong seeing that it was good that her son did something good by confessing. But she took it too far, and this led to the son not having appropriate consequences or understanding of his own actions. They were focused on the wrong things, they were out of balance and distorted, they loved each other and wanted to please each other and see only the good . But man can I relate. When it seems (too) right - is probably a signal to check yourself and check in with God and make sure!
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
Can you resonate with this? Is there an time in your life or a relationship that you have done something that 'felt' right, but in retrospect you were definitely off track?
📖Tomorrows Reading
Judges 18-19
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