Judges 10:15. “And the children of Israel said unto the Lord, ‘We have sinned: do Thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto Thee; deliver us only, we pray Thee this day.’” THEY NEVER LEARN. For some unknown reason I cannot fully understand – There is a strange quirk in sinful fallen man. Each generation resists lessons the former one learned – And goes back to – and beyond – the wages of sin they earned, Adding to their sins a whole lot of their own Refusing to act on the consequences shown To them by those generations before decimated by sin And the new one has to go back and experience again What they could’ve avoided if only they’d listened To those who learned by hard experience in their generation. God does not ignore and will not overlook The willing departure from truth and the God they forsook To be like the world around thinking their way is more fun – Giving up their integrity, worship – even daughters and sons To worship what is evil, licentious and bad, Instead of what is holy, thinking they will be sad If they can’t do what they want with no restrictions at all, Not considering the consequences and how far down they’ll fall, When the fun times are past and reality sets in, And they have to pay over and over the wages of sin They earned because they wouldn’t listen or give attention To what God said, and what was learned by the earlier generation. Stop what you are doing! Do not take another step! Learn what you sow is what you are going to get – Far more than you sowed the results surely will be, Because you wouldn’t listen and learn from past history.
“O God, are we never going to learn that history repeats itself unless we pay attention to Thee and Thy Word? How can we break this tight cycle of repetitive sinning that affects us in our nation and even personal lives? I am thankful for the Holy Spirit that blows the whistle on us when we are wrong; for the Word of God that tells us what is right; and love for Christ and Thee that motivates me to want to not go the wrong way in life. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”