January 29, 2026
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Reading along with us in 2 Kings, Acts, & Hebrews? Here’s today’s reading:
2 Kings 25 (NIV)
1 So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. He encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it. 2 The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.……Continue Reading
And so Judah and Jerusalem were utterly overtaken. Pillaged and plundered, and now completely under Babylonian rule. The net result of their disobedience and evil ways. Maybe in not so dramatic a form as this, we have all come to the end of the road of some sin in our life, the point at which we must put it down because it is bringing only our destruction. But God is always waiting for us, to come to a point of surrender and repentance. When we finally realize there is no sin worth being apart from God. We see a glimmer of God still there waiting in the end of the chapter through the kindness shown king Jehoiachin, He is with us through the worst situations even the ones of our own doing!
It is a lesson to all, that in addition to being a God of love and mercy, God also deals with sin and executes discipline against it. He had given the people of Judah so many chances to change their ways and warned them of what would happen if they continued to disobey. He sent them prophets and they periodically had righteous kings. And they just continued to walk away from Him. And yet God was also with them in Babylon and blessed them there and gave a 70 year time frame on this exile. How grateful we can be that God disciplines us because He loves us and always wants the best for us. And is always seeking to teach us the benefits of following Him. We will learn from the negative example of the Jews to do so?
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Psalm 73; 2 Kings 24-25; Ezekiel 4; Hebrews 4
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