Today, I invite you to read Judges 21.  I am glad to be finishing the Old Testament book of Judges.  While the book shares important spiritual principles with us, the events of the book are hard to read.  Many of the events shared in the book shock our consciences, but if we are honest, the world described in the book of Judges is not so different from the world in which we live.  In Judges 21, the sins of the people are further compounded as they seek to provide a human solution to a problem they have created and of course the human solution only makes matters worse.  May we learn from the events retold in Judges to be completely dependent on God in all our ways, to wait on Him earnestly and to seek His face persistently.  May we take the lessons of Judges and deploy them in our individual lives and in our life together so that God finds in us a people set apart for Him, ready to do His will and to live out His character.