2 Chronicles 21:4 Jehoram killed all 6 of his brothers---courageous Elijah wrote him a prophetic letter about his upcoming painful and fatal disease. Oh to have courage to stand up and speak against moral evil when God calls us to do so, not fixed on our good life.
2 Chronicles 22:1 Jehosheba kidnapped Athaliah's son, one-year-old Joash, and protected his life. Jehosheba hid Joash for 6 years from his queen mom in his mom's own castle. His queen mom laid her eyes on her seven-year-old after six years---what did she think? She was worried only for her own success. And Joash, in his early years, trusts his God. Amazing.
These are horrendous stories. 66 LL says: "Only when you see the moral evil in the human heart will you surrender to the mystery of My plan. In this world, I am destroying moral evil in My people." There is moral evil in all of our hearts when we live to get our own way and determine what is best for us and live to get it. "Greed, loveless sex, frenzied grabs for happiness with no concern for how others are impacted, more interest in making one's point than listening to another's, an inability to give or receive love, the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival, ugly parodies of community like courtesy without connection, laughter without love, weeping without worship---these are moral evils."
PHOTO: Peering out of an airplane window at a summer sunrise. Hard to believe we can live without thinking about God our Creator and what that means for how we spend our lives. Hard to believe there is so much wrong with what we are doing. Hard to believe is the problem.
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