2nd Kings Chapter 13.
There were two kings of Israel that we read about. The first king did evil in the eyes of the Lord but when he was in great turmoil he turned to the Lord for help and God helped him and delivered him from his situation. After he was delivered he went back to living his old ways and never repented from his sins. I see that in people. They turn to the church for help and make promises about how they'll be in church and their lives will be changed. But once you help them, you never see them again. Maybe I even do that with God. God doesn't want just our one problem, he wants our whole life. I want my whole life surrendered to God so he can have control over all of me and not just some of me. I want to be able to be used by him while I walk in holiness without compromising with this world.
Also in this chapter, Elisha, on his dying days, was used by God to once again help somebody in the name of the Lord. And when Elisha died, and his bones laid in the open ground, some other men threw a dead body on top of his bones, and when the man's body hit the bones he came to life.
I want my life to be such a testimony for the Lord that it impacts people's lives for Jesus. And when I die, I hope my life will still be a testimony for the Lord, that even in my death, a life can be pointed to Jesus.
Lord I surrender all my life. Lord use me to impact lives for you.
From reading this chapter, I thought about how God used Elisha’s bones to bring someone back to life! Even when a situation may seem hopeless to us, God can turn it around and bring new life! God gave help as we read in verses 4 and 5 about how God listened to Jehoahaz after he sought the favor of the Lord. It’s sad that even though God is rich in mercy, some people choose not to turn away from their sin just as we saw happen in this chapter.
May we be people who let go of our sin and hold onto Jesus just as we read about being raised up and seated with Him in Ephesians 2:1-7
“And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”
Every Christian person fails and that’s why we have Gods Grace over something we don’t even deserve. In the book of 1 John 1:9 it says that if we confess our sins He is just to forgive our sins and cleanse us for all righteous. Always keep that in mind whenever we feel like we’re failing God is always there for us to take us to the next level of where we want to be in life.