ESOCS Devotional 25 June 2021
TEXT: REVELATION 4:1-11
MEMORY VERSE: “Thus Jehu rooted Baal out of Israel” (2 Kings 10:28 Amp).
God commanded Jehu to put an end to idolatry in Israel. Idolatry comes with many other sins and ungodliness. He did it with commitment and zeal. Israel became free from it for a while. They concentrated on worshiping God, and abandoned other gods.
We have commandment to remove all things that pertains to ungodliness and unfaithfulness to God (Eccl. 11:10). We are commanded not to love the world (1 John 2:15); but to hate the it and all its pleasures. It is God’s will that we live according to the teachings and commandments of His word (John 8:31); and not according to the standards of the world.
We are demanded to love other people with the same measure of love we have for ourselves (Matt. 22:39); not to hate or dislike them. It is expected of us to practise true Christian principles and ethics; not to indulge in worldliness. God called us into Christ to become saints, that is, holy and righteous people; not to remain sinners or continue in iniquity.
He expects us to keep marching in our pilgrim’s journey until we enter the New Jerusalem that would descend from the sky; and to go back to Egypt in our hearts or be mindful of the world in which we live. Such behaviour would retard our progress in our journey to heaven. It would cause us to backslide and derail from the right path.
Those things we throw away from our heart and life, we must not allow to come back again. Keep them out forever! We don’t need them. They would defile and make us impure. Let us not behave like Jehu who abolished idolatry in Israel but brought it back later, and encouraged it (1 Kings 16:1-3).
- Learn to keep away sin from your heart, and do good.
- Father, support me in my fight against sin in my life.
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FURTHER READING: Exodus 16:22-36; John 8:48-59; Revelation 19:11-21
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ESOCS Devotional 25 June 2021
