Scripture Union Daily Guide Saturday 17th May 2025: Traps and Snares!

Scripture Union Daily Guide Saturday 17th May 2025

Scripture Union Daily Guide Saturday 17th May 2025 Devotional Message

Today’s Daily Guide 17 May 2025 Reading By Scripture Union

TOPIC: Traps and Snares!

OPENING PRAYER: My dear heavenly Father, as I study your word, let it be a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: Judges 2:1-23

QUESTION FOR MEDITATION
► Q 1: What does the passage teach about God the Father, or God the Son or God the Holy Spirit?
► Q8: Is there any other Biblical passage that can help me understand this passage better?

Scripture Union Daily Guide Saturday 17th May 2025 OUTLINE

Reflect on the message that the angel of the Lord gave to the Israelites (Judges 2:1-3), thus: • God’s promise to the Israelites (Judges 2:1) .

* What was required/expected of the Israelites (v.2a) .
* Israelites’ disobedience (Judges 2:2b).
* Consequences of the disobedience as enacted by God (Judges 2:3) .

Though the Israelites wept and offered sacrifices to the Lord at the angel’s message, it was a case of too little too late. A complete fault line had already formed, which became full blown after the death of Joshua and his entire generation (Judges 2:8-10). Notice the disheartening description of the Israelites’ repeated behaviour of rebellion, disobedience, backsliding and the punishment that follows (Judges 2:11-19).

How does this mirror the struggles of humanity today? 2 Corinthians 6:14-16 provides a preventive caution to this situation today. Notwithstanding, God showed them mercy whenever they returned to Him in repentance. God’s love and mercy towards His people are unmatched (Lamentations 3:22-23). Yet Judges 2:20-23 reveal how the sin we commit is usually the cause of our woes. Constant backsliding retards our Christian growth and deprives us of the peace and joy that should characterise our life as God’s people.

* Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?

Prayer for the Week:
Pray for the vulnerable around you today that the Lord will heal and restore them.
Pray for orphans and widows that God will continue to sustain them, and that they will see god as being everything to them.

One Year Bible Reading Guide:
1 Samuel 29-31, Matthew 13.

One Year Bible Reading Guide, Hard Copy Version:
2 Samuel 16-18

NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN
Sat May 17, 2025

PRAYER FOCUS
NATIONAL PRAYER SECRETARY.
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped… Ps. 28:7

THANK GOD FOR:
* The grace upon the live of National prayer secretary, Sis. Badejoko Olugbebi in coordinating the prayer activities of the ministry. • The Sound health the Lord has granted unto her

PRAY FOR:
* Greater grace and strength upon her life. • Divine insight in identifying Areas of ministry activities that call for prayer. • Divine shield upon her life and the family. • She will continually trust the Lord to lead and guide her decisions

Scripture Union is an international, interdenominational, evangelical Christian organization. It was founded in 1867, and works in partnership with individuals and churches across the world. The organization’s stated aim is to use the Bible to inspire children, young people and adults to know God. (Scripture Union Daily Guide 17 May 2025)