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Judges chapter 10, verse 16.

So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord.

And he became impatient over the misery of Israel.

So just to set the stage for why this verse is so important and so beautiful and how it leads

us to pray, this is at the end of Judges Chapter 10 as we see yet another cycle in the book of

judges of God's people disobeying him, giving in to all sorts

of idolatry and immorality, and then experiencing the fruit of that, meaning consequences for sin

and hurt and pain and misery because that's where sin leads.

And then they cry out to God, please deliver us.

And then you have this verse.

So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord.

And he, the Lord, became impatient over the misery of Israel. So why is this

important? Why is this beautiful? And how does that lead us to pray? It's important because it's a

reminder that we need on a daily basis that sin always leads to misery.

Always, always, always.

We think our ways are better.

We think going about things according to our ideas.

And our flesh is better.

It's never better. It's never better. Sin is so enticing in our lives,

and yet it always leads to misery. But that's the enticement. That's the deception that's involved with sin

because we don't sin because we want to be miserable. We actually sin because we think this will be good for us.

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