DAD'S RAMBLINGS – Is There No God?
II Kings 1:1-3
"Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. Now Ahazaiah fell through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria, and was injured; so he sent messengers and said to them, 'Go, inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.' But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, the Tishbite, 'Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, "Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?" ' "
Ahaziah had succeeded his father, Ahab, as king, and he walked in the way of his father Ahab, his mother Jezebel, and other nations (I Kings 22:52-53). So he turned to the god he had been trained to believe in – Baal-zebub. Baal had replaced God as the God of the Israelites. (Note: By the time of Jesus, the Pharisees thought Beelzebub had power as the ruler of demons. See Matthew 12:24.) When people walk away from the true God, they will seek solutions to their problems in a false god – science, education, economic prosperity, military might, psychology, or psychics and the occult. Is there no God in America? Apparently not because people seek the answers to life's dilemmas everywhere but from the true God.
TODAY'S THOUGHT: People show what God they put their faith in by where they turn to seek answers.
Have a "God-seeking" day. Love you.
II Kings 1:1-3
"Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. Now Ahazaiah fell through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria, and was injured; so he sent messengers and said to them, 'Go, inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.' But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, the Tishbite, 'Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, "Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?" ' "
Ahaziah had succeeded his father, Ahab, as king, and he walked in the way of his father Ahab, his mother Jezebel, and other nations (I Kings 22:52-53). So he turned to the god he had been trained to believe in – Baal-zebub. Baal had replaced God as the God of the Israelites. (Note: By the time of Jesus, the Pharisees thought Beelzebub had power as the ruler of demons. See Matthew 12:24.) When people walk away from the true God, they will seek solutions to their problems in a false god – science, education, economic prosperity, military might, psychology, or psychics and the occult. Is there no God in America? Apparently not because people seek the answers to life's dilemmas everywhere but from the true God.
TODAY'S THOUGHT: People show what God they put their faith in by where they turn to seek answers.
Have a "God-seeking" day. Love you.
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