Executed judgment

Reading: 2 Kings 11-12, 2 Chronicles 24, and Revelation 21

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 24:4, Though the army of the Syrians had come with few men, the Lord delivered into their hand a very great army, because Judah had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Joash.

Thoughts: God is calling each one of us to him. When we choose to walk away and strive after things of this would and the fleeting joys of sin, if we walk away long enough, we could stop hearing that calling or worse. We could end us like Joash and many other kings of Israel who God brought in other nations to take the people out of the promised land. In this passage it talks about how a small army defeated Joash’s great army to being judgment on them. Jesus died to take that judgment from us yet there are times where we turn our backs on what he did, and we start wanting to pick up those chins and burdens. Let us turn back to him and seek him before we have hardened out hearts so much that we can’t hear him calling us home. 

Prayer: Father God, you are worthy of all praise and honor, you are higher that all things. I thank you that know me and call me your own. I thank you that you are molding me and making me. I thank you for the provisions and blessings that you are continually pouring out that we may bless others. I ask that you help us to hear your voice and soften our heart that we can turn back to you when we go astray.