A Reason To Sin

 

Today's verse is 1 Kings 12:27

If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. 

    Who made Jeroboam King? Consider what God had promised Jeroboam: “And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.” Yet, Jeroboam did not believe God! So, he devised a way to keep that which God had given him, a way that did not include the one that made him, the One that cannot lie, and had given him a promise. What of you, have you given yourself a reason to sin, to turn against the one who died for you, Risen again that he might give you life eternal? Let us so examine ourselves, and see if we are following after the promises God has made us, according to his ways. Let us see how God will keep his promises, rather than force him to execute the conditional clause, as he did with Jeroboam when Baasha became King. Amen,

To God be the Glory

Scott

Today’s reading is 1 Kings 12, 2 Chronicles 10-11, Titus 1

Tomorrow’s reading will be: 1 Kings 13-14, 2 Chronicles 12, Psalm 4, Titus 2