Please read the text before the commentary.
We begin the book of Judges. This passage gives the main points of the book. It is the history of our relationship with God. Like the Israelites, we have our false gods, which we follow until we are so far as to be completely lost. Then we turn to God for help comes and God rescues us. This lasts for a time, we forget and go after our pagan gods, like greed, popularity, and our high opinion of self and become lost until we repent again, find forgiveness and rescue and then repeat the cycle of sin, disaster, repentance and rescue over and over, again and gain.
We are like the Israelites. Our relationship with God changes constantly and it is only by God that we find forgiveness. Despite all that the Israelites did on negative behavior. God saved, protected and reassured them. If God could save them the people of the Judges, he can also do the same for us of today. God created us for out of love for us. God saw that we were good because God had made us good. Even in our wors behavior, we do not lose our goodness. Even people guilty of the most heinous crimes do not lose their initial goodness: God still loves them.
God has a place for each one of us in heaven. When we have plunged into the depths of depravity and have completely lost our way according to human standards and our own standards, God still saves us, as he saved the early Israelites.
We can use the book of Judges to give hope on our journeys through life. God can and will do for us what God could and did do for the Israelites.