October 27, 2025
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Reading along with us in 1 Kings and Acts? Here’s today’s reading:
1 Kings 14 (NIV)
Ahijah’s Prophecy Against Jeroboam
1 At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill, 2 and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go, disguise yourself, so you won’t be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Then go to Shiloh. Ahijah the prophet is there—the one who told me I would be king over this people.……Continue Reading
Well a sick son is something God will use to wake someone up in regards to the course their life has taken and try to get them on the right path, especially one like Jeroboam to whom God has entrusted the 10 tribes of Israel. But rather than coming to repentance over what he had done, he tries to get an answer from someone who is close to God. How sad it is when someone tries to borrow the faith or wisdom from someone else who knows God when their disobedience has got them in a jam, when all along, they could have been develop that faith and wisdom themselves. It is also a little funny and sad that they try to full the prophet of God with a disguise. Well God and the prophet look right through that and give Jeroboam’s wife the bad news. Imagine to hear that you have done worse evil than anyone else combined? And yet still no repentance. And Rehoboam does no better in Judah. That is what happens when your mother is an Ammonite, one among the many foreign wives Solomon took on, and she is the one who has more influence on her son. Now none of us are beyond this type of decline in our lives. We need to keep believing and obeying and watch the influences we allow into our lives.
1 kings 14
The end of both Jeroboam and Rehoboam’s reigns comes as no surprise with little to brag about. Both did a terible job following God and leading the people the way God wanted. There was so much sin and idolatry and no relationship left with God. That was obvious just in the way Jeroboam thought he should seek God’s counsel regarding his son. Disguises and darkness do not work with God….He knows our heart and He knows what we are doing, so it is with a repentant heart that we come and kneel before Him knowing He already knows and now it is time to get ourselves right before Him. Too bad that did not happen for either of these two men before it was too late!
1 Kings 13 & 14
Psalm 14; Isaiah 64; 1 Kings 14
After reading in a previous chapter about how Rehoboam turns to the advice of his friends instead of the wisdom of his elders, it’s interesting to see in this chapter that he was in his 40s when he became king. I guess turning to the wrong sources for advice is something we can be guilty of regardless of our age.
1 Kings 14
”Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Israel, and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been as My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes;“
I Kings 14:7-8 NKJV
This reinforced to me that our relationship with God is based on faith and our heart. And that God knows the heart. David did NOT do what was right in Gods eyes, but David did ask God to remove his sins, to not take His HS from him, the Psalms relay David’s heart towards God. Thank God for His mercy towards all who call on Him.