Our reading challenge for the day is 2 Chronicles 11-15. I’ll hit a few highlights. You make comments too and fill in the gaps. What strikes you as specially significant?
2 Chronicles 11 - Rehoboam has a fairly good start, listening to the prophet who urges him to faithfulness. He also receives the displaced priests and Levites from Israel. It must be especially painful to see the nation where you are one of God’s servants turn to idolatry.
2 Chronicles 12 - The review of Rehoboam turns downhill after five years. Continue to notice how the author of Chronicles is particularly interested in the leader’s faithfulness to God. Rehoboam is found wanting. Things are not too bad in Judah but Rehoboam has turned away from God and receives the penalty of his sin.
2 Chronicles 13 - After the time of Rehoboam, Abijah in Judah stood up boldly for God’s commands before Jeroboam. God gave him the victory though he was significantly outnumbered. Do we stand up for God’s truth? What is our confidence when we are outnumbered?
2 Chronicles 14-15 - We then have yet another good king in Judah, Asa. He is quite forceful about looking to God alone. Remaining faithful to God is a challenge. Yet it is a challenge that is full of rewards. We can have confidence that if our Lord has ordained our path we can walk down it without fear.
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