Sometimes we’re just plain wrong.
Not us! Oh, no! We are the Christians who set the example for the rest of the world. We can’t be wrong.
Or, at least we can’t admit it. If we do, then we’ve lowered the standards the world must live up to. We must maintain the bar high, so that the standards of the Church are never compromised.
Let’s see how God views our standards.
Rehoboam was a king of Israel. The son of Solomon, he had a vaulted legacy to live up to. He failed miserably. One of his major failings was his attraction to more than one wife.
Now, before we get all stressed, it was the thing to do in the day. Kings had many wives. They were expected to. Hey, lots of women wanted to marry the king. It wasn’t his fault, was it?
His fault or not, it created dissention in the king’s life. 2 Chronicles 11:23 tells of Rehoboam’s flawed attempt to rectify his base desires:
“And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.”
Rehoboam tried to resolve his issues. He had more kids than he could deal with, and he dispersed them far and wide. It seemed like a good solution at the time. He never dealt with the real problem, however. And he desired many wives. His core issues still haunted him, causing him to forsake the law of the Lord, and to bring the wrath of God on his head.
We can’t simply send the effects of our sin away. We must deal with our core issues. We must kneel in prayer, repent of our wrongdoing, and change our ways. Rehoboam didn’t understand that until it was almost too late. However, in 2 Chronicles 12:12, we read:
“And when [Rehoboam] humbled himself, the wrath of the Lord turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.”
Humility is the only answer to placating God. Only when we bow before our God and King and we admit the errors of our ways, does he relent and gift restoration unto us. It’s time. Let’s turn to him today, and let him be the Lord and Master of everything we think and do.
God’s standards are not up for debate. Let’s align with him, so that we can prosper in his name.
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