2nd Chronicles 18-19 Why did he listen to Ahab?

    


  Good Saturday morning, I am writing early to all of you after a rough day yesterday. This morning is the monthly food distribution I work for in Glen Rose, Texas. I love serving in this ministry at Cornerstone Fellowship.  There was some good in yesterday; we got a new fridge for downstairs. We have always had two fridges until about 3 years ago, when we gave one to someone to get started in a home. It turns out to be almost exactly what we gave away. It will hold a full-size party tray, and that was the most important feature we wanted. I see some gatherings/parties in our future! But on the way to pick up the fridge, I had a wreck in my bride’s truck while pulling a trailer…ARGH! Everyone was ok except for Bella, that’s what my darling bride named her truck. She is still drivable after I removed the driver’s side fender so we could open the door.


I feel awful for causing this accident and worse for messing up my bride’s truck! The adjuster afterward said I was the first person all week he didn’t have to argue with about fault; it was obviously mine! So that cheered him up on a late Friday afternoon. All of that just puzzled me; I guess it is ego that causes everyone to pretend it's not their fault. Maybe that is what got into Jehoshaphat, too, in today’s chapter!  Well, it's Saturday, so please forgive my rambling!


   Let’s get to Today’s Daily Bible Challenge, where we are listening to 2nd Chronicles 18-19.  I am so puzzled why Jehoshaphat still went into this battle, knowing what the prophet said about this alliance and Ahab’s alignment with foreign false gods. If battles and wars are your interest, the Bible is full of them in the Old Testament. There are strategies and accounts of total maheim, just dig in and ponder what you might have done in this situation, Jehoshaphat finds himself in.

 

   In chapter 19, we see Jehoshaphat come home with his tail between his legs, and he got right with the Lord after being delivered in the battle that would have brought on certain death for him without God’s intervention. How often do we stray from God’s will for us, only to seek Him afterward and try to set things back to His ways? We all fail, blessedly, there is Jesus to forgive us and give us a pathway out of our messes! If we repent and ask for it with an honest heart!


   Talk with you soon!


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