Good enough is never good enough - Judges 1-5

If you read through this passage you can't help but read how many times the author says, "... did not drive out the inhabitants of ...". Judges is a book that shows us what God's people did with the gift of the promise land. They were told to go into the land and conquer it. They were supposed to drive out the inhabitants of the land, make no covenant with them and destroy them. Instead, in the first two chapters we read where they did not drive out the inhabitants of the land and did not destroy them. Instead they left them in the land and made covenants and established relationships with them. When thy almost had them conquer and destroyed they spiritually said, "good enough!" The nation of Israel conquering the promise land is a picture, or type, of today's believers conquering sin in their lives (Hebrews 3-4). God is in the process of giving us a victorious Christian life. He is in the process of giving us victory over sin in our lives. However, like the nation of Israel, we have approached sin with a "good enough" attitude. Instead of driving it out of our lives we let pieces of it linger around. We watch, observe and participate in little acts of sin and that eventually drives us to a full relationship with it. When it comes to driving sin our of our lives we can't have the attitude of "good enough." We must heed the warnings we find here in Judges 1-5. If we don't drive sin out, God will allow it to linger in our lives to be a test for us and a thorn to us (Judges 2:2-4). Drive sin out - good enough is never good enough!