February 17, 2022

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 10-13
Meditation Verse: 12:13

Thought

Rehoboam did poorly as king because he was young and inexperienced, yet here it says he began to reign when he was forty-one years old! How then could he be a youth and tender of heart? He should have been mature with some experience, not like a seventeen year old or a twenty-five year old! Yet twice Scripture testifies that he was young and inexperienced! If that was true of a forty year old, how much truer is it of thirty- and twenty-year-olds! It is arrogant for any of us to think that we are so wise, especially when we have so little experience. Our scale needs to be adjusted, so we stop seeing ourselves as so wise, then perhaps we will see the need to seek the Lord with all our heart, and do so all our days.

Application

The next verse actually says that Rehoboam did evil because he didn't resolve his heart to seek the Lord. He sought the Lord some, but not to the degree that he needed: with all his heart, all his days. Knowing the Lord needs to be first in my heart all my days if I really want to avoid doing evil. I can't dabble in knowing God, He can't be a side pursuit or a hobby. He must be most important to me.