2 Chronicles 25:1-4
August 10, 2023
Amaziah Reigns in Judah
Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not with a whole heart. And as soon as the royal power was firmly his, he killed his servants who had struck down the king his father. But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, “Fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin.”
Many in the Church are like Amaziah, they do not serve the Lord with a whole heart. As His followers, we are to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord with a WHOLE heart, but is that the requirement for His Church? In Mark 12:30, we are told by Jesus; “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” We also find the same command in Deuteronomy 6:5, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”
Church, that sounds like Whole Heart, to this writer, He first before mother, dad, or children, before work, or play, He demands to be First. Can you find any reason why we would not do so? Well, the Scriptures tell us we can choose and we do to listen to the Spirit or the flesh, and the world. It always comes down to a choice.
Now back to Amaziah, he did honor the Law, in the Book of Moses, and yet the Lord tells us did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not with a whole heart.
Often, I find myself needing to go to 2 Corinthians 13:5, “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? —unless indeed you fail to meet the test!” An unexamined life is dangerous.
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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