Tuesday, November 29, 2016

OT DAY 571 - Obey Renewed, Disobey Finished (Please click here for English podcast)

Silence

1.   Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence
2.   Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace and feel His presence. Exhale your worries.

Praise and Thanksgiving

1.   Think through your day, all the times that made you smile
2.   Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people
3.   Open your heart to praise the Lord

      I waited patiently for the Lord;
          he inclined to me and heard my cry.
       He drew me up from the pit of destruction,
          out of the miry bog,
          and set my feet upon a rock,
           making my steps secure.

        He put a new song in my mouth,
           a song of praise to our God.
       Many will see and fear,
            and put their trust in the Lord.


        
                                                             Psalm 40:1-3

Confession and Repentance (Subjective Shifting Devotion Method http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html)

1.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to work in you:

     “Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

2.  Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:

     "Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sin to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gift to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

The Word (2 Kings 23:28-30)


28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 29 In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him. 30 And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
                                                                2 Kings 23:28-30

20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight atCarchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him. 21 But he sent envoys to him, saying, “What have we to do with each other, king of Judah? I am not coming against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war. And God has commanded me to hurry. Cease opposing God, who is with me, lest he destroy you.” 22 Nevertheless, Josiah did not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to fight in the plain of Megiddo.23 And the archers shot King Josiah. And the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.” 24 So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.          
                                                                               2 Chronicles 35:20-24
Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

    My Listening

           How can the last good King of Judah who initiated the last reform, a good and great reform died so suddenly like that. What happened!
           I think if you just read 2 Kings, you don't know. But, when I put 2 Chronicles here, you know what happen. 

     Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us: 
             The very factors that initially facilitated Josiah's reformation were eventually invalid in bringing about his death…Second Chronicles 35 is clear that this involved an act of disobedience to God. Hudah had promised that Josiah would die in peace. Perhaps he has forfeited the promise by his disobedience.  

John Goldingay. 1 and 2 Kings for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011, p.184-185.

           
           You listen and obey to God, renewal comes to your life and God can use you to change others life, even the whole nation. You disobey to God, you may be finished in a short period of time. In Chinese tradition, we have a saying for tyranny's cruel "Those who obey to me live, those who disobey die." Do you know sometimes God will do this to some disobedience servants of God. Wow! Scary! Watch out!

            Why? Because when you are away from God and you become stubborn, stone heart, self-certre, pride, without discernment and insist on doing things your own way, my way and not God's way, you may suffer a lot because of your disobedience or you even will die in a short while! Do you know that could happen to anyone, not only the mighty good king Josiah?

             Let's humble ourselves and ask for God's forgiveness of our weaknesses and sins and that we can return to God so that we can be able to discern God's will and not like King Josiah, making wrong deadly decision!   

    Dear Lord Jesus,
    Help us to know that you are the One who we have to listen and obey. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
   1. Do you think God really would do what he did to King Josiah to those who disobey Him? Why He can be so cruel?

2. How can you be more careful of what you have been doing and to check always whether you are already off track that may cause your own life? 

    3. What have you got from Jesus today?

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