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After completing a commentary on Ephesians, with delight I turned my attention again to narrative—this time to the book of Judges, the stories of which have captivated me all my life. But this was a troubling book to study and write about. The darkness of the accounts, especially in the latter parts of Judges, was saddening and heavy. All those leaders, with such great potential, chosen by God and gifted with his Spirit, frittering away their calling, squandering their divine opportunities—how could their stories not grieve the people of God, not to mention God himself?

Painful though the reading and writing was, it strengthened my own resolve to attend more carefully to the call of God in my own life, in the spheres in which he has placed me to lead, as he has each and every one of his children. So this commentary goes out with the hope that all of God’s people—God’s leaders in some fashion or another, to some degree or another, in some arena or another—will endeavor to become godly leaders after God’s own heart, by taking the words of Judges and applying them, in the Spirit’s power, to their own lives.

We must beseech God insistently, day and night, to make us understand why the Scripture was given, that we may apply the medicine of the Scripture, every man to his own wounds. If not, we remain idle disputers, and brawlers about vain words, ever gnawing upon the bitter bark outside, and never reaching the sweet pith inside. —William Tyndale, “Prologue to the Pentateuch”

May our consumption, digestion, and assimilation of the “sweet pith” be for the glory of God, for the furtherance of his kingdom, and for the edification of his people! Let’s go . . . and lead, God’s way!

Abraham Kuruvilla

Dallas, TX

Feast of Tyndale 2016