June 28 - Isaiah 28:1-29 | 2 Kings 17:5 | 2 Kings 18:9-12 | 2 Kings 17:6-41 | Isaiah 1:1-20

Good morning everyone,

The day has come, we’re told in 2 Kings 17:5, “The king of Assyria invaded the entire land, marched against Samaria and laid siege to it for three years.” At the end of the three years, Israel was deported. Why? Again, because they had not obeyed the Lord their God, but had violated his covenant. They neither listened to the commands nor carried them out. Now if you lived in Judah and heard of what the ten northern tribes were going through, one would hope that you would learn from it. Right? Sadly, instead of learning from the mistakes of their cousins in the north, they chose to follow along in their footsteps.

Eleanor Roosevelt was once quoted as saying, “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” God has got a plan for our lives, we can either do it the easy way by letting Him guide us, direct us and therefore receive the many blessings He has of us or we can be an obstinate people, head strong, always acting as though we know so much more than God which ultimately ends in hard knocks.

As every person who has ever been around a baby or small child knows, that when these small children are left to their own way of doing things, their own direction and curiosity, they would inevitably kill themselves. They push things in light sockets, shove any and everything in their mouths, wander out in the middle of the road, 

have no concept of height, and the list goes on. Even as they get older we are still telling them, don’t smoke, practice abstinence, stay in school, and it doesn’t stop there, for even still as adults, we are learning from those who went before us as to what works in life and what does not. Guidance. When we stray from this guidance, the consequence of choice can range from a reprimand to death.

When we read the Bible we should be learning from those who went before us. We should  recognize and understand that apart from a life with God, is certain suffering and eternal damnation. That’s not to say the Christian won’t have trials and suffer, because they will, maybe even more because Satan wants to wear you down, but Christians have the peace that surpasses all understanding and are better equipped to “deal” plus there is the living in heaven for eternity part, that personally, I am most looking forward to. The life of the “worldly” person may look fun, pretty enticing in fact, but it is an empty life, temporary at best, leaving you thirsting for more. Jesus told the Samaritan woman, a woman of the world, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water” that “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” she said back to Jesus, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

I would encourage you today to choose to push the world aside and drink from the Living Water. Don’t be like Judah who like their cousins in the north will also fall into captivity, choose to learn from those who went before you. Allow Jesus to lead you, Matthew 11:28-30 says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” And all God’s people said ….. Amen!

Have a great day and to God be the glory!

God bless you all …