Full of Integrity

Judges 4

Do you have any habits that are bad? Maybe it is like not washing your hands or something like. We have habits all the time. They are either good or bad but we are full of habits. The weird thing with habits is that sometimes we do not even know when we do them because we are constantly. Sometimes it is important for us to be able to be aware of all the stuff we do.

In this chapter of Judges we see the same story again. Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died.

Deborah

This time Israel was under the oppression of the Canaanites. The king of the Canaanites was Jabin and he had 900 chariots. The chariot during this time was a very great advantage when it comes to war. It would be like infantry against a tank, the tank has a huge advantage. The king suppressed the people of Israel for over 20 years.

Deborah was the judge during this time. God raised her up. We see that she was wise as people would go to her to handle their problems and we see that she was brave as she was not afraid to even gather the troops and to go up to war. We do not see a woman taking the leadership role that much in the Bible but here is a woman who leads.

God delivered the Canaanites and the 900 chariots into Israeli’s hands. The general of the Canaanites got away and fled to the tent of Heber and Jael. Jael took Sisera into the tent and gave him water and he fell asleep. While he was asleep she took a tent peg and hammered it into his head. The Israelites were delivered from the Canaanites.

Stand strong in the Lord and do not waver left or right (Joshua 23:5). There will be people that will fall away and get distracted. There will be some that do not get distracted. There will be some that are called to lead and some that will not listen to that call. Deborah was there and not afraid to lead and to even go to war. She new that the Lord was the one who was in charge. We need to remember that our integrity is what needs to be what shines. In 1st Timothy 3:7 Paul tells Timothy to make sure that outsiders even look at you with respect. He was telling Timothy that even those that are not believers need to be able to see that you are full of integrity. How do your friends at school look at you? Do you act one way around them and then another around your church family? We need to be the same for the Lord whoever we around