Today, I am reading and commenting on  2 Chronicles 15-18.

Yesterday I said that we often overlook Asa.  Today’s passage makes it clear that that is our fault.  The writer here tells us enough that we should recognize what a great leader Asa was.  After Asa had defeated the Cushite army by calling on God, God sent Ahaziah to prophesy to Asa and the people of Judah.  The message which he gave them is one which applies to all people for all time.  First he told them that God will be with us when we are with God.  That is a vitally important lesson.  If we want God to be with us when trouble comes, then we need to be with Him now.  Then Ahaziah told Asa and the people of Judah something which is repeated multiple times throughout the Bible: those who seek God will find Him.  Those two messages together should give us great hope and joy.  Ahaziah even explains why that message is such a message of hope.  He tells his audience that at one time Israel was without God.  At that time the people were in turmoil and it was not safe to travel.  In response to that situation, the people sought God, and He as found by them.  Today, once again the land is in turmoil.  So, let us seek God so that we may be with Him, and let us encourage others to do likewise.

I want to point out that not all of those who seek God know what they are seeking.  But even those who do not know what they are seeking will find God, if that is what they truly desire.  I also want to note that while only those whom God has called will seek Him, we have no way to know to whom His call has gone.  I, also, believe that some who have been called by God reject His call.

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