Judges 17:6 (KJV)
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
I recently heard Pastor Clifton Miser (First Baptist Church of Englewood, CO) give a helpful perspective on this verse and others like it. He described it not merely as atheism, but as people being religious while still doing things their own way.
There is only one King we need—Jesus.
Without Him, no matter how sincere our faith or our practice, it is empty.
Micah’s story is a perfect example. Though he had stolen his mother’s money, he repented, confessed, and restored it. From that point on, he seemed to want to do what was right. But having no King—no true submission to the Lord—he kept making one bad spiritual decision after another.
• His mother made him an idol.
• He made a hobby of gathering people around himself.
• He hired a Levite to be his personal priest.
And every decision appears to flow from the same reasoning:
Judges 17:13 (KJV)
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
The sad truth is that the Lord would have gladly been with him and done him good. God had provided a way through the prescribed worship at the tabernacle, through sacrifices and offerings, and under the legitimate priesthood—everything designed as a schoolmaster to bring them to Christ. Micah missed the very thing he wanted because he chose his own way instead of God’s.
America is full of people who long for the blessings of God. Just a few days ago, President Trump said church attendance is rising again in the United States. Unfortunately, it seems to be a kind of religious revival without the King. It is church of a sort, but it is every man doing what is right in his own eyes. It is worship, but not according to Scripture.
And this is nothing new. It explains the birth of many denominations. It is the fruit of professing believers abandoning the King and settling for a pope, or government favor, or the power of the masses, or the sacraments… you get the idea.
The trouble is this:
If Christ is not our King—our Sovereign—if we are not submitted to Him, then whatever our practice of faith may look like, it amounts to nothing more than doing what is right in our own eyes.
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