“Turn from your wicked ways.” Ah, that’s the real challenge of 2 Chronicles 7:14.
When it comes to the state of my nation, I want the other fella to turn from his wicked ways. Cause I’m one of the good guys, right?
God: Are you content with the status quo so long as it’s profitable for you?
Me: Do I really have to answer that?
It is so easy to make excuses: Everyone is doing it. I’m not as bad as they are.
God doesn’t set much store by excuses. That’s where the “Humble yourself” comes in.
Food for thought here. Uncomfortable thought.
Uncomfortable indeed. When I started the Nehemiah study, I didn’t really know where it would take me. This is only lesson 2. Makes me wonder what’s ahead.
Now that’s a convicting question! I know I should never be content with the status quo, but I confess, I am at times. I remember that above all, God is looking at my heart. My actions say less than the heart that motivates them. And who motivates my heart? I want it to be God.
Jeanne, I think that the status quo is sometimes fine. But I don’t think God wants us to be content with comfortable. He often pushes me into uncomfortable territory. And if I start to get too comfortable there, he pushes me again.