A Life of Surrender

 "A Life of Surrender"

 In 2 Chronicles 24:2 it says that 'And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

He was seven years old when he began to reign, and the first thing that he did as a king is to restore the House of the Lord.

In fact, in that same chapter, 'house of the Lord'was repeatedly mentioned 11 times - 2 negatively and 9 positively.

For the positive side, key words are restoration of, reparation of, work of, utensils for and burnt offering in the house of the Lord. In the New Covenant faith, we know that our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit of God. To become righteous before God, the first thing that we have to do is to restore our relationship to God by accepting Jesus as our Saviour. Repair our life by repenting from our sins and allowing God to move in our lives. We have to busy ourselves to the works of God, studying and meditating the scriptures and be connected to the Body of Christ. Here we see that our utensil is the word of God, both for our service and burnt offering. In the New covenant, our life is the burnt offering. Meaning, in offering our life to God, and in doing the works of His Ministry, we must ensure the we are in the context of the truth of the Word.

The negative aspects spoke of the wickedness of Athaliah because she had broken the house of God, and Joash abandoning the house of God after Jehoiada's death, because he listened to the counsel of his brothers.

Lesson, wickedness in the Bible first and foremost speaks of us breaking our covenant with God by turning our attention to other things other than Him. Root cause: we listened to the influence from others and worst is we only listened to our own self. If we do that, we will no longer recognized the voice of our Lord, and it will lead to abandoning our faith.

Jesus came to save us from our Sins that we no longer live for ourselves but for Him, so we have to make it a goal that our body and our life is fully surrendered to the Lord. By giving up self will, we allow ourselves to listen to God. Faith is God talking, while we listen and obeys.

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