Are You Kidding Me?

 

1 Samuel 7:7(NKJV)

7Now when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel had gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard of it, they were afraid of the Philistines. 

Are you kidding me?  How quickly they forget.  Here's what I am talking about.  As you can see in the above verse, the Philistines are going up against the Israelites. 

Here is why I find that so incredible.  It had only been 20 years since God had put a whoopin on the Philistines.  The Israelites had gone against the Philistines 20 years earlier without inquiring of God first, and the Philistines not only whipped the Israelites but they also to the Ark of the Covenant back to their country with them. 

That's when things started going downhill for the Philistines.  So much bad stuff happened to the Philistines that they voluntarily gave back the Ark to the Israelites.  Now how bad do things have to be for you as a warrior nation to voluntarily give back the spoils of battle?

But yet just 20 years later they are back attacking the Israelites.  Just one generation was all it took to forget the lessons that they had learned.

I find that amazing, until I look at my own life and realize how many lessons I have to learn over and over and over again.  That's part of human nature I guess.

But here is the biggest difference.  What happened to the Philistines when they had to relearn a lesson?  Thousands died.

What happens when we need to relearn a lesson?  We can simply go to Jesus, confess our sins and have the slate wiped clean.  We get a fresh start.

Would you like to experience that fresh start?  Then just simply ask Jesus to come into your life and take over.  Just have an honest conversation with Jesus.  All you have to do is start the conversation, He'll take it from there.  "Dear Jesus…."