Humble Yourself Before God!

2 Chronicles 12

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, October 18.

Do you believe that you can learn something from anyone? It is easy to disregard people when you don’t like the decisions they have made, but we need to adopt a humble mindset that we can learn from anyone.

King Rehoboam is a good example of this truth. He was the king of Judah for seventeen years and even though he did evil in the sight of God (2 Chronicles 12:1-2, 14), there was something positive we can learn from his life – the power of humbling ourselves before God. Paradoxically, for a guy who forsook God’s Law, he listened to His prophet. Twice, we watch Rehoboam listen to Shemaiah, and both times he was rewarded for it. The first instance is found in 2 Chronicles 11:2-4 when Jeroboam rebelled. In response, Rehoboam raised up a large army to pursue the northern ten tribes, but the prophet told him to send the army home. The king surprisingly obeyed the prophet.

The second instance was when God sent Egypt against Jerusalem because of his unfaithfulness. In 2 Chronicles 12:5-6, we watch Rehoboam respond to the prophet’s rebuke with humility:

Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “Thus says the Lord, ‘You have forsaken Me, so I also have forsaken you to Shishak.’” So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is righteous.”

The power of humility is emphasized by the Chronicler in verse 12, “And when [Rehoboam] humbled himself, the anger of the Lord turned away from him, so as not to destroy him completely.” If God responded favorably to the humility of an evil king, He would do the same for you!

God bless you!

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