Day 138 - 2 Chronicles 25-28

ONE-YEAR JOURNEY OF THE BIBLE
Day 138 - 2 Chronicles 25-28 (Are You a Two Timer Believer?)
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"Now it was so, after Amaziah came from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up to be his gods, and bowed down before them and burned incense to them.  Therefore the anger of the LORD was aroused against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet who said to him, "Why have you sought the gods of the people, which could not rescue their own people from your hand?"  (2 Chronicles 25:14-15)

It must have taken king Amaziah a lot of courage and faith to obey the Word of God spoken through a prophet of God to discharge the one hundred thousand strong army from Israel that he hired just because God told him to do so.  Yet, as we read from the rest of our Scripture passage, Amaziah was unfaithful to God in most other things including worshipping the gods of the nations who were his enemies.

King Amaziah was what I would call a two timer believer - he obeyed God in some things and didn't obey Him in most.  If we are truly honest with ourselves, we will admit, to to a certain degree, to being guilty of double crossing God.  On the one hand, we obey God by going to church or even attending Bible study and on the other hand, we become unfaithful to the Lord by committing such sins as cursing, getting under the influence of alcohol or drugs, sex outside of marriage, gossip and back-biting, gambling, refusing to work, etc.

Just as God rebuked Amaziah by telling him, "Why have you sought the gods of the people, which could not rescue their own people from your hand?"  God is also telling us, "Why are you seeking the very same idols of sex, alcohol, drugs, gossip, gambling and laziness and irresponsibility that have ruined an innumerable number of lives and families and have not been able to rescue even a single person from his problems?

Blinding people to the destruction caused by sin and getting them to serve sin instead of God is what Satan is so good at doing.  The person who does not possess the Holy Spirit of God is helpless to resist Satan and sin and his only hope for salvation is by surrendering to Christ and accepting Him as Lord and Savior.

The true believer in Christ, however, is not immune to sin and the deception of Satan.  Unless the Christian is totally yielded to the Holy Spirit and is daily immersed in the Word of God and in the service of the ministry of Christ's Church, he or she is vulnerable to sin and becoming two timer believer.

May God help you and me to be disciplined enough to daily read His Word and walk constantly in dependence on the Holy Spirit in everything so that we might resist the devil and not fall into his trap.