Our readings from 2 Kings this week report the state of a community as they pass from one king’s rule to another. The changes each king wrought had to make heads spin! One king was all about idol worship and the next one removed all the idols and recentered everyone back on God. Then they got another king that wiped out anything God approved of and put idol worship back into place. YIKES! This had to be a stressful time.
We began talking about how this scenario is mirrored in the world today. Changes in government leadership often result in this type of large scale change. Maybe a change in company ownship at work or even just getting a new boss. We even see it when a new pastor comes into a church. Change is hard. How do you know which change to cope with and which change to raise a ruckus about? Well the answer to that is both easy and hard at the same time. You must be in tune with God’s Word and His will. How do you that? You spend time reading your Bible. You study it with others. You pray and pray some more. We must be intimately familiar with God and that takes time, as all relationships do. Time – that’s what is require of us. Time – something most of us would say we don’t have enough of already. Time – Something we can give that is monetarily free but costly to us all at the same time.
How are you investing your time? Do the ways you are investing your minutes provide fantastic dividends? Shouldn’t they?
