1. Judges 17:9 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is striking about the Levite’s confession?

Judges 17:9 (ESV)

9 And Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place.”

The Levite, without shame, confesses his purposelessness, his aimlessness, as well as his openness to whatever opportunity that might come his way: I am going to sojourn where I may find a place.1 He is not living for the kingdom of the Lord.