Author: Bubba Jonas

Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and reign over us!’ But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I cease my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to sway over trees?’ Then the trees said to the vine, ‘You come and reign over us!’ But the vine said to them,…

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”JUDGES 17:6 PONDER THISThe Book of Judges is not only about what God has said in the past but also what God is saying to us today. The people were forgetful; from one generation to the next, they forgot…

So the woman bore a son and called his name Samson; and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. And the Spirit of the Lord began to move upon him at Mahaneh Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.”JUDGES 13:24-25 PONDER THISMany of us know the story of Samson, but do you know the secret of his…

So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, ‘If you take me back home to fight against the people of Ammon, and the Lord delivers them to me, shall I be your head?’ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, ‘The Lord will be a witness between us, if we do not do according…

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, but he was the son of a harlot; and Gilead begot Jephthah.”JUDGES 11:1 PONDER THISNot every person used by God has a great background. This man had a bad birth and bad background, but he was going to be used by God. Even if we look…

So it was, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel again played the harlot with the Baals, and made Baal-Berith their god. Thus the children of Israel did not remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side; nor did they…

And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, ‘The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor!’ Gideon said to Him, ‘O my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us…

And Barak said to her, ‘If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go!’”JUDGES 4:8 PONDER THISI love the ocean, and I love to watch the tide come in. Poet Priscilla Leonard once wrote, “On the far reef the breakers recoil in shattered…

They fought from the heavens; the stars from their courses fought against Sisera. The torrent of Kishon swept them away, that ancient torrent, the torrent of Kishon. O my soul, march on in strength!”JUDGES 5:20-21 PONDER THISWhat does the phrase, “The stars from their courses fought against Sisera” mean? It means the fight was fixed. Sisera…

And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, ‘The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor!’ Gideon said to Him, ‘O my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us…