Judges 8:18-9:21, Luke 23:44-24:12, Psalm 99:1-9, Proverbs 14:9-10
Pray: Lord, You sit enthroned in heaven in all Your glory and holiness! You are exalted over all the peoples, may we praise Your great and awesome name! You are our great King and in Your might You love justice. May we worship at Your feet today, Amen.
Read: Gideon was a leader called of God, but Abimelech appointed himself and murdered his own brothers to become the leader. Absalom and Adonijah would make this same mistake and pay for it dearly. Jotham’s parable reveals that there is a price to pay for true leadership. Others had paid the price for Abimelech to rule, but he had sacrificed nothing on his own. A true leader must serve the people. But if good men and women will not pay the price and lead well, we will always get men like Abimelech. Abimelech’s sins eventually caught up with him, but he certainly did a lot of damage to his family and his people first.
Edify: I don’t believe there is a more powerful passage in all of scripture than to read of the resurrection of Jesus. It was too amazing for the disciples to even comprehend and when the women tell them, the scriptures tell us that they thought it was an idle tale. They soon realized that this was no joke at all and that Jesus had risen from the dead!
Practice: Let us live today remembering that our God is alive and not dead. He has risen and so have we from the old life of sin and death. Praise be to God!
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