Today, I am reading and commenting on 2 Chronicles 15-18.

Today’s passage begins as King Asa returns with his army from success against an overwhelming army from Cush.  A prophet came out to meet him and told him, and the army, “The Lord is with you when you are with Him.”  Asa repaired the altar in front of Solomon’s temple and the people gathered and made offerings to God.  The passage tells us that the people sought God eagerly, and that He was found by them.  If we wish to succeed we must seek God’s will and chose His side of any conflict.  If you choose to forsake what God desires He will forsake you.  It is not hard to know God’s side, if you truly seek Him, you will find Him and will know His desire.  We even have an illustration of this later in the passage when Ahab invited Asa’s son Jehoshaphat to join him as he went t war.  Jehoshaphat said that he would do so, but first they needed to seek counsel with the Lord.  Ahab summoned four hundred prophets, who told him what he wanted to hear.  At several other places the Bible references Ahab having four hundred prophets of Baal.  Jehoshaphat recognized that when he asked Ahab to seek the counsel of the Lord, Ahab sought the counsel of Baal.  So, Jehoshaphat asked if there were not at least one prophet of God of whom they could inquire.  Jehoshaphat sought God and thus he recognized when Ahab tried to pass off Baal as God.  In the same way, if we seek God, we will recognize when people seek to pass off lies as the word of God.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.