What Happens When Everyone Does What’s Right in Their Own Eyes

“In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” — Judges 21:25

A World Without Direction

Have you ever looked around and thought, “What is happening to the world right now?”
If so, you might understand the Book of Judges more than you think.

Judges is one of the most raw and unsettling books in Scripture — filled with war, betrayal, heartbreak, and moral collapse. God’s people had lost their way. Everyone followed their own truth, and the result was chaos.

It sounds a lot like today.

We live in a world where right and wrong are blurred, where people do whatever feels good in the moment — and then wonder why everything feels broken.

The Dark Spiral of Doing “What’s Right in Your Own Eyes”

By the end of Judges, even God’s chosen people had descended into complete disorder.

One of the most disturbing moments comes when, in a desperate attempt to preserve their tribe, the men took innocent young women by force — claiming them as “wives.”
It was sexual violence.
It was sin.
It was heartbreaking.

This brutal event exposes just how dark the human heart can become when it drifts away from God’s truth and compassion.

Scripture does not sanitize history.
It doesn’t protect us from the ugliness of sin.
It shows us what happens when people replace God’s ways with their own.

God Was Not Absent — Even in the Chaos

Even in the darkest moments of Judges, God did not abandon His people.
He didn’t endorse their actions, but He also didn’t walk away.

Out of this same broken nation — full of violence, idolatry, and rebellion — God would one day raise up:

• kings,

• prophets,

• and ultimately a Savior
  who would redeem every failure of the human heart.

That’s the message of Judges:
Not that evil is excused,
but that grace refuses to give up.

Where Sin Grows, Grace Begins to Work

God works in ways we cannot see —
in the wreckage,
in the collapse,
in the parts of the story we think are too far gone.

He takes what feels irredeemable and begins to restore.

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He brings order out of chaos.
He turns endings into beginnings.
He writes redemption into the very places we thought were ruined.

If Your World Feels Out of Control…

If you’re watching things crumble — in your life, your family, your world — and wondering where God is in it…

Remember this:

He’s still writing redemption stories.
And even in the darkest chapters, His mercy has not left the page.