Today, I am reading and commenting on  2 Chronicles 26-28.

In yesterday’s passage we saw Joash and Amaziah, who faithfully served the Lord for most of their lives, but turned from him late in life and were assassinated.  Today we first look at Uzziah, who sought the Lord until he became powerful, at which point he became prideful and began acting as if he would never be held accountable.  As a result, he contracted leprosy and lived out the final years of his life in relative isolation.  His son Jotham also served the Lord and did what was right.  As a result, Jotham became powerful.  Unfortunately, he failed to turn the people from idolatry and his son chose to act wickedly.  Rather than follow the example of his father (and grandfather, great grandfather, and even great great grandfather), Ahaz chose to chase after idols which promised him pleasure.  Ahaz’s actions resulted in Judah becoming weak and being overrun by invaders.  Even then Ahaz did not turn to the Lord, instead choosing to chase after even more idols.  Fortunately for the kingdom of Judah, Ahaz’s son, Hezekiah did learn from his father’s mistakes, and, as we shall see in tomorrow’s passage, sought the Lord.   Today’s three kings give us two lessons.  First, no matter how faithful to God our parents were, we need to choose for ourselves to serve Him.  Second, no matter how faithful we are to God in our youth when we are struggling to get established, we need to remember Him later in life, or we will pay a price we would rather not.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.