Seize the Moment – Day 961
Confront Evil with Good!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, November 3.
Have you ever heard the saying, “No good deed goes unpunished”? Have you ever helped someone to only get hurt by them? Did that stop you from doing good in the future?
Joash was a baby when his aunt and her husband, Jehoiada the Chief Priest, saved him from his murderous grandmother, the evil Queen Athaliah. As the only survivor in the line of David, Joash was made king at the age of seven, and he was a good king when he listened to the council of Jehoiada (2 Chronicles 24:1-2). After the priest died, Joash forsook God (17-18). The crescendo of his evil was the murder of Zechariah in the temple courts. He owed his life and kingship to Zechariah’s parents, but upon their deaths he not only rejected their godly influence, but he had their son stoned to death for calling him back to faithfulness. This tragic turn of events is recorded in 2 Chronicles 24:20-21
Then the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people and said to them, “Thus God has said, ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the Lord and do not prosper? Because you have forsaken the Lord, He has also forsaken you.’” So they conspired against him and at the command of the king they stoned him to death in the court of the house of the Lord.
This is a heartbreaking tragedy that confronts us with the injustices of life. Bad things happen to good people, and there are times when doing the right thing leads to devasting consequences. What are God’s people to do in the face of such pain and injustice?
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