"Time to Do Things Right"

September 04, 2024 Daily Devotion: "Time to Do Things Right" 2 Kings 17:18-20 New International Version 18 So the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah was left, 19 and even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced. 20 Therefore the Lord rejected all the people of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hands of plunderers, until he thrust them from his presence. Samaria´s sins had spread to Judah. We see the prophet Micah weeping over his country, making a list of cities that were doomed by the Assyrians when they took the Northern Kingdom into exile in 701 B.C. God spared Jerusalem from destruction back then, but, since Judah had copied the idolatry of Israel, it would be destroyed as well. We know sin has consequences in our lives but, sometimes, we willingly suffer these consequences instead of hearing God´s Word and obeying it. This has to stop! It´s time to do things right.