2 Chronicles 30-32; Psalm 113
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Today is one of those days I have a lot of things from the
scriptures to reflect on.
~King Hezekiah’s letters sent to all Israel and Judah – He says to
return to the Lord so that he may return to them. “He will not turn his face from you if you return to him.”
God does not turn his face when someone
comes to him no matter what they’ve done.
I feel like sometimes Christians and churches turn their faces away from
people who are far from God. They
are not accepted and even pushed away at times. But how can one who is far from God come near to Him when
the people of God turn their faces from them? We are to love as God loves and forgive as God forgives.
~The Israelites in Jerusalem celebrated the Passover for 14 days,
and when it was over they went out throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and
Manasseh and destroyed the items there for pagan worship –
This had me once again thinking about the
Church and how beautiful it is when it works the way it should. When they were done gathering together
they went their separate ways back to their individual worlds and tore down the
barriers keeping people from worshiping the one true God. They lived out their faith. I love what a guy said who just got baptized
the other day at our church – he said, “I don’t want people to just see me in
church; I want them to see the church in me.”
~Sennacherib, the king of Assyria’s lie sounded just like Satan,
the father of lies –
He tried to make the Israelites doubt
God, and Satan does this all the time.
Is God really there? Is He
really different than all the other gods people believe in? Do you really think He can save you
from this? But God always gets the
victory over Satan! Sennacherib
and the Assyrian army were annihilated, and Hezekiah and the people of
Jerusalem were saved. It says that
God took care of them on every side.
Don’t listen to the lies; trust in the one who has the victory!
~Then finally from the Psalm today –
It was just in yesterday’s post that I
was thinking about how certain things are repeated in the Bible over and
over. There is a picture in Psalm
113 that is one of those things that shows up again and again in the Bible, and
it is one I love: “He raises the poor from the dust…he seats them with
princes.” This is what I want my
life to be all about…
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