Second Chances
2 Chronicles 10-12
Who is God? He is not always what I expect. (This story in chapter 10 is tough to grasp. Does anyone else have any insight? This King Rehoboam seems like the worst. He follows a young man’s advice and announces that he will beat his people with scorpions, figuratively I hope. Then the king ignores his people and we find out that all of this is God’s doing. And then we learn that God has angered the northern tribes of Israel so much that they refuse to be ruled by a descendant of David, ie Jesus, ever again. Is this story about God cutting these tribes off from salvation? I’m not swallowing this so easily.) He is merciful. 12:7, when the Lord saw Rehoboam’s and Judah’s leaders’ change of heart he decides to “not completely destroy them,” as the NLT version phrases it. He is a God of second chances.
What does this mean for me? Pray for wisdom. Don’t abandon the Lord. No matter what you have done, humbling yourself before the Lord is a good decision. Seek the Lord with all of your heart.
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