fine, go.

The Lord replied, “When the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines, the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands? But you have forsaken me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you. Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble! ” (Judges 10:11-14 NIV)

It’s so easy to look at the Israelites and wonder how they could have missed it when God was right there in front of them all those years. God literally delivered them from bondage, opened seas, dropped manna from the sky and brought them to a place to call their own. How could they be so blind and turn their backs on a God who did all that?

But don’t we do the same thing all the time? Don’t we only ask for things from God but never give back to him? Don’t we constantly turn our backs to Him and think he doesn’t know what we’re thinking or doing? Do we really thing he doesn’t know our hearts?

Then God said, ‘fine, Go… see if the grass is greener… let your other {little g} gods save you.’ What else was he supposed to say? Fine, go – I’ll be here when you’re done. I’ll be here when you stubborn headed egotistical know-it-alls figure out that I am GOD.  wow.

Lord, I don’t want to make the same mistake the Israelites made, but I seem to make them all but daily. I’m sorry I am so stubborn and I’m sorry I always think I know better. But I don’t know better. I never ever do.