When a group of people totally abandon God, they have to live with the consequences. Those consequences usually involve pain, suffering, humiliation, oppression, unjust treatment, and other kinds of evil. When the rebels realize what they have done and cry out to God, sometimes it’s too late. Sometimes God replies as He did here. He tells the people that He won’t rescue them from their enemies. Instead, He tells them to cry out to the gods they had chosen to serve. This is the fate of those who abandon the real God for tiny false gods (money, fame, pleasure, or any other thing we make up and substitute for God Himself). They won’t save you in the end (they can’t, for they don’t have the ability). All the reason more to only serve the real God, and not rebel and be deceived.
11 The Lord replied, “Did I not rescue you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines, 12 the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites? When they oppressed you, you cried out to Me for help, and I rescued you. 13 Yet you have abandoned Me and served other gods. So I will not rescue you anymore. 14 Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen! Let them rescue you in your hour of distress!”
Judges 10:11-14
An Ordinary Man's Pursuit of the Extraordinary God of the Bible. These are daily insights from reading the Bible from cover to cover yearly. It is intended to point others to the Truth, and inspire people to pursue the God of the Bible individually.
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