Continued Division

Jeroboam had a few things happen to him that were pointing him in the right direction, but he still chose to still worship idols. Because of this the Lord makes Jeroboam’s son ill and die. Then Rehoboam takes to idolatry and Israel follows like little sheep. Because they were unfaithful to God an Egyptian King came up against Rehoboam and took over his cities. Rehoboam humbled himself to the Lord and the Lords spared his life. Once Rehoboam dies of old age, his son Abijah took over.

Well, now the war between Abijah and Jeroboam takes place. But Abijah recalls to the Israelites that they are descendants of David and should turn from Idol worshiping and turn back to the Lord. When Jeroboam attacked, the Israelites relied on God and guess what? They won!!! They had heavy losses, but they won. And to top it off Jeroboam lost power to Abijah . Unfortunately, Abijah was not perfect and still committed many many sins. His mind was in the right place but his heart was not and like all other that followed David, he sinned miserably.

I think we each have a responsibility to do Gods will, as we understand it. You know we will never do it perfectly, but when we outright sin like Jeroboam, we need to reflect on what is going on in our heart. We see some of what is going on here in today. Our society has abandoned Gods moral standards and with that we have more and more wickedness. More and more sorrows. More and more strife. And as our society continues to decline, we will see more and more of all of that jus like back then with Jeroboam. One thing we can do is pray that God will bring a man in power who will not be ashamed to run a moral country!