Another year around the Son 2026
In the daily reading plan we read 2 Chronicles 12, Galatians 5:14-26
“Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity, idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!”
Galatians 5:19-21 NET
Fierce warnings for flesh living.
Rehoboam’s rule over Judah is marked with division due to his decision to be harsher than his father. This triggered the secession of the ten northern tribes under Jeroboam. Shortly thereafter invasion from the king of Egypt hits Jerusalem. We see the glory of the temple fade ever so under Rehoboam. Gold shields gone, and a fractured kingdom. YET, all is not lost.
When the Israelites humbled themselves, God heard and saw. “The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is just.””
2 Chronicles 12:6 NET
God sees everything, when you turn from the flesh though no one else sees, God sees. “When you fast” Matthew 6:16-18 Jesus instructs us to fast discreetly, not making it obvious.
Is it enough to stop the nation from annihilation? (2 Chron. 12:7 NET) YES.
And if others mock you for not following with them headlong into the hell of separation from God—remain. Rehoboam’s name means to enlarge the people, yet rather than enlarging Israel the ruling monarch holds his ground through an act of nation wide humiliation before God.
Others may not understand your choices, but heaven leans in and applauds you, all of heaven cannot wait to welcome you into the kingdom. Christ’s gentle love is irresistible and irrevocably the best thing you could ever have!
And you have it.
You are God’s workmanship. His Spirit is regenerating you. God will work and who can stop him.
Isaiah 43:13 KJV Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
