FRIDAY. JUNE 29
Scripture: Judges 19:11-30, Judges 20

When we read this passage about the Levite and the wickedness and the war that it caused in Israel, we find something very interesting revealed in God’s Heart. When the tribes came together, they asked for Benjamin to deliver up the perpetrators and they refused. God ordered them to go to war with Benjamin. Not once, not twice, but three times – until Benjamin was ultimately destroyed. Here again, we find an example of God dealing with the issue of sexual sin. It was so important to the national life of Israel that God was willing to destroy one tribe, completely and totally because of their disobedience. That makes us ask, “Why is this such an important issue to God, and why is it now a judicial issue that demands prayer?”