Today's Passage: 1 Kings 21-22
Do you know people that think they can do whatever they want...that they can get away with anything without fear of punishment or reprimand? Odds are we all have known this person at some point in our lives. As someone with a strong justice nature, it really gets under my skin when I follow the rules and lose out to someone who both doesn't follow and doesn't care about them.
In the story today, Ahab and Jezebel feel like their power is so great that they can do whatever they want and whenever they want to do it. Ahab wants a vineyard? Well, then, Ahab can just take it. Jezebel sentences an innocent man to death simply because she can. Ahab then takes the vineyard without asking any questions...simply because he can. If the story stopped at verse 16, it would end with the two of them celebrating their power and good fortune.
But the story doesn't end there! Even though they think they've gotten away with it, God knows otherwise. Elijah prophecies against their wickedness, and as we'll see a little later, what he says will come true. Even though the world may think they are getting away with it, God won't let this injustice go without punishment.
Scripture tells us that God is a God of justice. Does that mean we need to go around pointing at these people, saying "God is going to get you for that"? Of course not. But we must remember that God sees everything, and while we are called to turn the other cheek, God will hold the world accountable for it's actions. His justice isn't my concern...my concern is to live for Him no matter what anyone else does to me our around me.
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