The Plumbline

1-2 God 's angel went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, "I brought you out of Egypt; I led you to the land that I promised to your fathers; and I said, I'll never break my covenant with you—never! And you're never to make a covenant with the people who live in this land. Tear down their altars! But you haven't obeyed me! What's this that you're doing?     3  "So now I'm telling you that I won't drive them out before you. They'll trip you up and their gods will become a trap..."   10  Eventually that entire generation died and was buried. Then another generation grew up that didn't know anything of  God  or the work he had done for Israel. (Judges 2:1-3; 10) The book of Judges is not often one of the places I turn to find counsel for my life because I think of it as a book of history about what happened when the Israelites inhabited the Land of Canaan.  As I was studying the first two chapters today, the evidence that Israel did no

23  The L ord  directs the steps of the godly.       He delights in every detail of their lives. (Psalm 37:23) I sat for several hours yesterday with my grandsons playing with the Lego building blocks at the kitchen table.  This particular building project had about 4 one gallon ziploc bags full of intricate parts in all shapes and sizes.  When it is all done, it will be the Batmobile...right now, it is a "form" of what it will become when it is done.  Needless to say, we did not finish the project, but we have a good start with a framework created to continue building upon at our next time together. My oldest grandson could look at the illustrations, find the correct pieces and then place them together in order.  My youngest, bless his heart, picked up those that interested him, placed them together and occasionally asked his older brother to assist in "making them fit" to accomplish what it was he wanted them to do.  At one point, we needed the parts he had in