After Israel’s victory over Sisera, Deborah and Barak sang of those who had willingly joined the struggle. Yet their song also named Meroz, whose inhabitants had failed to come to the Lord’s help against the mighty. The angel of the Lord pronounced a curse upon them. Their absence had not escaped His notice. We can measure our conduct by the wrong we have avoided while overlooking the good we have left undone. A person needs help, truth needs defending, or a responsibility belongs to us—and we leave it for someone else. Meroz gives us reason to examine those empty places in our obedience. God sees the help we withhold as clearly as the deeds we perform. When faithfulness calls for action, doing nothing is still a choice.
“Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.” —Judges 5:23
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