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Judges chapter 17 verse six

says in those days there was no king in Israel

everyone did what was right in his own eyes. Judges

chapter 21 verse 25, the last verse in judges says the exact same thing.

So just think about the repetition here and what

this means, how this describes the days of the judges. In those days there was

no king in Israel.

Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

The whole picture here is God had set up his people to be ruled by him as king.

That they would look to him as king,

that they would follow and obey and worship and honor him as king. They wouldn't need kings like the other nations around

them looked to kings because God would be their king. The problem is in the

book of judges they didn't look to God as king and everyone

chose to do what was right in his own eyes and the effects were devastating. You read through the book of

judges. It is in many senses a horror story. It is horrifying what happens when people do what is right in their own eyes instead of right in the eyes of God the King. So as we are praying, especially during this election season in the

United States leading up to a presidential election at the beginning of November.

But even as we think about other nations, as other people listen to this podcast from different places in the world,

we are driven to pray that God would help us to live and to govern in

whatever country we live in according to what is right in his eyes, not our eyes. And not just

to pray for our country in this way, but to pray for our lives and our families in this

way and even the way we think about political issues,

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