Reading in Judges, chapter two, I have been greatly impressed by the Angel removing from Gilgal to Bochim. Truly the people should be found at Gilgal in humiliation and self-judgment, but their loving Lord deigned to meet him at Bochim—the place of tears, and accepts worship in recognizing an altar of sacrifice there. While tenderly recounting His faithful dealings with them, and exposing their failure and departure only to plead,
“Why have ye done this?”
“Mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears.”
To me, it is deeply affecting that my coldness or failure in any way, should so sorrowfully affect the heart of love to which I owe so much. Let us seek to gratify, rather than wound such a faithful Lover of our souls!