Today's Passage: 2 Kings 21-22
Fifty-seven years pass in 2 Kings 21. In these 57 years, Israel goes from a nation that trusted God for deliverance with Hezekiah to one that is so far from God that they don't even know where the Book of the Law is anymore. It started with Manasseh and one idol...which quickly turned to many idols...which then turned to a full rejection of God and His ways. In 57 years, an entire country goes from trusting God to forgetting about His ways completely.
Fifty-seven years is a long time. You would think that someone, somewhere, would have spoken up and said something about it. You would think that it would have been noticed. But a long, slow fade from God's Word to the ways of the world lead to a country that completely turned its back on God.
That's the danger of sin. It starts small....we think we can handle it...we don't suffer major consequences...and it slowly begins to erode our relationship with the Father. If we don't stop things and repent, that slow fade turns into a major problem.
Are you fading right now? Is there something you need to put a stop to before you get somewhere you know you don't want to be?
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