In our Wednesday Bible Study we have been reading 1st and 2nd Kings...wow...Not an easy subject to teach much less wrap teenage brains around. So many kings, so many failures, so much death. And to try to help them continue to see God's hand in it all. Now I know there are some spectacular miracles in these books but in between it sounds like chaos! Inevitably the questions arise..."All they had to do was follow God's law and He would bless them, why do they keep turning away?" It's difficult to make them understand that it's for the same reason we do. Temptation...they don't realize that we behave the same way. In their minds it would be easy to set aside this "idol"...just throw it away! Once they come to see that there are idols in their lives, not the "stone carved" kind but each and every thing that comes between them and God you can see the light bulbs go on...and they begin to see what the Israelites were facing.
We are blessed to have this instruction especially when society seems so far out of balance. We can look back to the death, destruction and captivity, all of man's own making, and know that when we turn our hearts away from our idols,we will see God's deliverance once again.
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