Genesis 38-40

The consequences of little compromises lead to big spiritual implications. What I find the most significant in the story of Judah is his active choice to depart from the righteousness of his father Israel (Isaac) and faithful grandfather Abraham. Beginning with the plot to sell off Joseph as a slave to Midianites on their way to Egypt and then marrying a Canaanite woman, which symbolized unequal yoking morally, and then ultimately blindly deceived by desire to solicit a temple prostitute. Judah’s straying and didn’t happen overnight, it was a slippery slope beginning first in his heart as a sin of commission then manifesting in a sexual sin of omission. 

The beauty of grace and God’s sovereignty is that despite our imperfections and unrighteousness God uses us to fulfill His divine plans. Through Judah and Tamar the lineage continues all the way through to King David and ultimately Jesus. God’s love and mercy are boundless and unending, it is foolish for me to try and measure the mind of God with my own reason and human understanding. God is sovereign, his plans will always be fulfilled with or without our participation, though it behooves us to participate with the will of God because obedience to his call, word and moral law yields spiritual blessing. 

Romans 9:18 “God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.”

“It would be therefore preposterous to measure His [God’s] operations by our wisdom.” ~John Calvin

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