"But after Jehoiada's death, the
leaders of Judah came and bowed before King Joash and persuaded him to listen
to their advice. They decided to abandon the Temple of the LORD, the God of
their ancestors…” 2 Ch 24:17
Joash’s failure was in his discipleship;
he became dependent upon man’s guidance and wisdom and never matured in his
relationship and reliance in the Lord. Like
many new Christians, children in the Lord, Joash's knowledge of God was secondhand
and through others knowledge. It was a start, but the king needed his own
relationship with God that would outlast and overrule the changes in the advice
he received. It would be easy to
criticize Joash's failure were it not for the fact that we often fall into the
same traps and never learn to mature in our own personal relationship and trust
in God and seek it through others.
“Christianity without discipleship
is like Christianity without Christ, you want get far without the other.”
HSAY…Todd
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