October 10, Reading 1 – 2 Kings 10

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SAA Notes

Jehonadab was one of the Rechabites. They were faithful to God in a degenerate age. Jehu’s apparent zeal for God is a cover to wipe out potential enemies. Baal worship was tied politically to Jezebel and her family’s kingdom in Lebanon. Jehu reinstituted the idols of Jereboam.

SJA Notes

* Loving God, give us understanding so that we might keep Your law and obey it with all our hearts.

“Thus Jehu wiped out Baal from Israel. But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin – that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.”

This can seem strange, even somewhat incomprehensible.

How can someone with such passion and fervour fall into the same sin they worked so hard to wipe out?

Hypocrisy.

It is hypocrisy we see clear and evident in Jehu’s life.

Jehu was okay with fervour for one particular bit of what God had said, but then completely ignored the other parts of God’s word.

There is opportunity for us today reading this, to check ourselves.

Are we blinded by our own passions and “rightness”?

We can be reminded that God’s word is the mirror that _always_ tells us the truth.

Let us be convicted to examine ourselves in the truth-mirror of God’s word, every day. To be about our work with all humility. To be praying with determination in our hearts.

* Dear God,

Please open our eyes, may we not be blinded by our pride and earthly passions.

Please fix our eyes on You; Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Please wash us clean this day Lord God. Please forgive us for our sin.

Amen.

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