Scripture Passage that Caught my attention today: 2 Chronicles 21:19-20 In course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his ancestors. 20 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign; he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. He departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
Observation: This is sad. Just plain sad.
Application: I’ve journalled on this passage before. There are people who are like this. They leave the party…or the team…or the company…or the community…or even the church and those who remain are more likely to breath a sigh of relief rather than regret. Tension dissipates. A feeling of new life resumes.
But it’s still sad. No one really wins.
Prayer: Lord, I pray for those who put themselves in such positions. I pray that you might somehow show them, or help us to show them, a better way. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
(Readings today included: 2 Kings 8-9, 2 Chronicles 21, 1 Timothy 4)
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