Today's Daily Lesson comes from 2 Kings chapter 14 verses 23, 24 and 27:
23 In the fifteenth year of Amazi′ah the son of Jo′ash, king of Judah, Jerobo′am the son of Jo′ash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samar′ia, and he reigned forty-one years. 24 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart from all the sins of Jerobo′am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin. . .27 But the Lord had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jerobo′am the son of Jo′ash.
A comforting but also steely word from the Scriptures this morning, as we sit on the doorstep of yet another Independence Day and reflect on the meaning of our Nation's past, present, and future, especially in this particular seasons of crisis and tumult.
Nations rise and fall. We know this from all histories. And leaders come and go, rising and falling also. But through it all, God sustains God's people, using even the most corrupt, evil, and inept of leaders to protect and to save.
Such is no compliment to an evil leader like Jerobo'am; but it is a surety that in the end God's will be done.
We worry for our Nation. We faint from foreboding over all the future might hold. We wring our hands over leaders and misleaders.
But the One who keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleep and shall preserve us from all evil.
"For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
And Amen.
NOTE: We are reading the whole Bible through this year. Over the weekend we will read the Book of Jonah, 2 KIngs 15, 2 Chronicles 26, and Isaiah 1-4.
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