Two Kings -Two Choices

This event in 2nd Chronicles spoke to me in more ways than one! First of all on how important it is to humble ourselves and turn to God!  Also in another way. In this story (as in many cases).... We see how quick God is to forgive and help those who turn to Him.  If we humble ourselves and turn to Him, He will do the same for us.

2 Chronicles 12:1-7

1 Now it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself, that he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel along with him. 2 And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD, 3 with twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and people without number who came with him out of Egypt—the Lubim and the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians. 4 And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came to Jerusalem.



5 Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah, who were gathered together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Thus says the LORD: ‘You have forsaken Me, and therefore I also have left you in the hand of Shishak.

6 So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “The LORD is righteous.”
7 Now when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance.

So quickly people  can change and turn away from the truth of God's word. God never turns away from us first. It is by our own choices we make that could seperate us from Him! So often too, we turn to all kinds of other places for help first before turning to Him.
May we all humble ourselves today and turn to Jesus alone!

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