- To whom do you turn where there is trouble?
- 2 Chronicles 28 talks about King Ahaz. He does evil in the sight of the Lord. He’s a super godly guy, just towards the wrong gods.
- He sacrifices right and left trying to get help. He just didn’t turn to the only God that mattered, that had any power to save.
- After Judah is terribly defeated, he doesn’t repent. He never comes to his senses. He turns and sacrifices to the gods of the army that defeated them. It doesn’t work.
- He gets obsessed with trying to get help from the gods.
- He puts an altar in every corner of Jerusalem and in every city.
- He thinks he’s doing so much to help, all the while digging a pit for himself.
- Where do you turn in times of trouble?
- Where do you run to?
- If you are concerned about your health, do you seek the Lord?
- Or, do you try diet after diet, this spice, that shake, this supplement, that regimen.
- If you need money, do you seek the Lord?
- Or, do you beg or borrow and go into debt? Do you use questionable means? Do you scrimp and save as if the Lord wasn’t going to meet your need?
- When you need deliverance from a bad situation, where do you go for help? Do you call a lawyer? Do you contact the press? Do you fight for your rights? Or, do you seek the Lord and His help and direction?
- These things might seem really different that burning your baby to a statue. And they are. Except, what makes one godly?
- It’s that seeking after the Lord. It’s that thinking of Him, looking to Him.
- And if you aren’t godly, then who are you? The ungodly.
