Judges | God’s Faithfulness to Unfaithful People (3:12-31 — The Humor of Our Salvation)

Judges 3:12-31

(Proverbs 31:25)

Just because we’ve been saved doesn’t mean we no longer need saving: backsliding, besetting sin, and hard-learned lessons are common in the Christian life.

Romans 7:21-25; Hebrews 12:1; 1 John 1:8-9

God never grows tired of saving us and has no shortage of strength to do so.

Isaiah 59:1; Romans 8:31-34

One day, we will look back and laugh with the Lord– at the foolishness of all who dared oppose His sovereign plan and with fullness of joy at the astonishing means by which He rescued sinners like us.

Psalm 2:4, 37:13; Luke 6:21

“When God laughs, he does so for our sake, to communicate to all who might hear. He laughs to signal coming horrors to his enemies and coming glories for his friends… For God’s people, his laughter resounds with great comfort. He laughs aloud to dispel our fears. He laughs to remind us that no purpose of his can be thwarted. We his people do not fear along with the rebel nations, because we have heard his fiercely happy voice… [And] for now, the laughing God still holds out open arms, even as he derides the vanity of his foes — a severe mercy that warns them that their path leads to consuming fire, and that taking refuge in the Son is an unending shelter of happiness.” — David Mathis