Judges 2:19 · World English Bible
But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.
Anything that lifts you from the outside holds only as long as it is standing there. Deliverance applied from outside changes conduct for exactly as long as the deliverer is present.
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Anything that lifts you from the outside holds only as long as it is standing there.
Deliverance applied from outside changes conduct for exactly as long as the deliverer is present. A judge rearranges the conditions while the habitual emotion goes on living underneath him, so removing the prop does not cause a relapse; it exposes a baseline that never moved.
Each lap deepens the groove instead of wearing it out, and the return trip gets faster every time, until dealing worse than their fathers is simply what an unrevised default looks like after enough repetitions. Stubbornness here is an emotional home doing its job rather than a decision anyone made. The price is that Yahweh's rescues keep landing on people who have chosen nothing, so nothing compounds except the ruts.
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