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Topic: -- Saturday, 9//4/10 -- TWO WRONGS - Judges 21
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From: "J.R. & Bonnie Ricks" <j-r-and-bonnie@dogwoodministries.org>
Date: Sep 03 06:08PM -0500
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TWO WRONGS - Judges 21
Judges
<http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%2021;&version=31;> 21
NIV
Israel had nearly wiped out the tribe of Benjamin. Just in the nick of
time, the men of Israel realized they'd better stop killing Benjamites or
there would be none left. Now only 600 Benjamite men remained. No women.
No one to assure that the tribe of Benjamin would continue. The men of the
other tribes were in a pickle. They had taken two oaths, both in a fit of
anger. both without thinking through to the consequences. And now they were
stuck with them. First, they had sworn they would not give up any of their
own women to be wives for the tribe of Benjamin. Since Israelites could not
marry the women of Canaan, that left no available women for the Benjamites.
Also, Israel had sworn to kill anyone who did not join in the fight against
the tribe of Benjamin.
Ahah! There was the solution! They sent 12,000 men over to Jabesh Gilead
- a town that didn't send anyone to fight - to wipe them out. They killed
all the men and every woman who was not a virgin. The leftovers came to 400
virgins from Jabesh Gilead, but that meant 200 of the Benjamites wouldn't
have wives. Oh, wow. They were still in a predicament, weren't they? But
they came up with a "perfect" solution. They told the Benjamites to go up
to Shiloh at the time of the annual festival of the Lord and hide in the
fields. When the virgin girls of Shiloh danced by, the Benjamites should
grab the ones they wanted and head home. Then when the girls' fathers
complained to their leaders, they would be asked to forget it. The
Benjamites needed wives, and these men had not "given" them their daughters.
So everybody was clean, right?
How many times do you and I do the same thing? We make a mess of something,
then do something else wrong in the process of correcting it. We commit
this wrong and this wrong and that wrong, hoping that somehow the sum total
will end up as a "right". But it just doesn't work that way. We need to
concentrate on staying away from the "wrongs" altogether, but if we do
commit a wrong, we must remember that compounding the situation with other
wrongs doesn't make it better.
Remember when you were a kid and you did something you knew your parents
would be furious about? So you lied to them about it? But your lie
conflicted with something else, so you had to tell another lie to smooth it
out? And then it seems that the two lies combined created a situation that
made it necessary for you to beat up your little brother? Even though he
hadn't done anything?
Get the picture? Adding another wrong action to what is already a bad
situation usually appears to be the easiest and most expedient thing to do.
And, many times, it may seem to be the most logical. But it's never the
right thing to do. Instead of alleviating the problem, adding wrong to
wrong will always compound it in some way. So the next time you're tempted
to take the easy way out, remember that Jesus' way is the only truly easy
way.
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